The Gippsland languages are a family of
Pama–Nyungan languages of Australia.
[Bowern, Claire. 2011.]
How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?
, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011
corrected
February 6, 2012) They were spoken in the
Gippsland
Gippsland is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) side of the Victorian Alps (the southernmost section of the Great Dividing Range). It cove ...
region, the southernmost part of mainland Australia, on the
Bass Strait. There are three rather distant branches; these often considered single languages, though the dialects of Gaanay are sometimes counted separately:
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Gaanay (Kurnai): Muk-thang, Nulit, Thangquai, Bidhawal
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Dhudhuroa
The Dhudhuroa people (or Duduroa) are an Indigenous Australian people of North-eastern Victoria, in the state of Victoria, Australia. About 2,000 descendants exist in Australia in the early 21st century.
Name
The endonym Dhudhuroa has been analys ...
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Pallanganmiddang
All are now
extinct.
The Gippsland languages, especially Gaanay, have phonotactics that are unusual for mainland Australian languages, but characteristic of
Tasmanian languages
The Tasmanian languages were the languages indigenous to the island of Tasmania, used by Aboriginal Tasmanians. The languages were last used for daily communication in the 1830s, although the terminal speaker, Fanny Cochrane Smith, survived unt ...
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References
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