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Wawula dialect

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Wawula
Waula
Regionsouth-east of Meekatharra
EthnicityWardal?, Madoidja?
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
AIATSIS[1]A29

Wawula is one of the Wati languages of the Pama–Nyungan family of Australia. It is sometimes counted as a dialect of the Western Desert Language, but is classified as a distinct language by Bowern and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.[2]

References

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  1. ^ A29 Wawula at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Claire Bowern and Quentin Atkinson. 2012. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan. Language 88. 817-845. Johns Hopkins University Press.