Wulna or Wuna is an extinct Indigenous language of

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. It was a non-Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the

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region of the

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. It is poorly attested and only tentatively classified as being related to Limilngan. It had one speaker left in 1981, Jack Wandi, who was recorded by Gavan Breen in 1980-1981.

Resources

The State Library of New South Wales has an original copy o
Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory
by John W. O. Bennett (1869). The book documents the vocabulary and pronunciation of Wulna in general, in addition to place names from the Adelaide River region of Northern Territory. The original copy has been annotated by

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, the first police inspector of Northern Territory, who has added his own words to the vocabulary list, and his own corrections on pronunciation.

External links

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includes and entry for th
Wulna language (N29)
* Paradisec has an open access collection of Gavan Breen'
materials for Wulna
* A scanned online copy o
Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory by John W. O. Bennett (published 1869, annotated by Paul Foelsche)
on the State Library of New South Wales' website

References

Limilngan–Wulna languages Endangered indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory {{ia-lang-stub