Woiwurrung–Taungurung language

Woiwurrung–Taungurung
Melbourne, Woiwurrung
Wominjeka, meaning welcome, at the entrance of Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, within Melbourne Museum
Native toAustralia
RegionVictoria
EthnicityWoiwurrung, Wurundjeri, Taungurung, Boonwurrung, ?Ngurelban, etc.
Extinctby 2004
Pama–Nyungan
Dialects
  • Woiwurrung
  • Taungurung
  • Boonwurrung
  • Ngurai-illamwurrung?
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wyi  Woiwurrung
dgw  Daungwurrung
Glottologwoiw1237
AIATSISS35, S36, S37
ELP
The five Kulin nations. Woiwurrung proper is in yellow, Taungurung is in the northeast in green, Boonwurrung is in the southeast in cyan.

Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Boonwurrung are Aboriginal languages of the Kulin nation of Central Victoria. Woiwurrung was spoken by the Woiwurrung and related peoples in the Yarra River basin, Taungurung by the Taungurung people north of the Great Dividing Range in the Goulburn River Valley around Mansfield, Benalla and Heathcote, and Boonwurrung by the six clans which comprised the Boonwurrung people along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. They are often portrayed as distinct languages, but they were mutually intelligible. Ngurai-illamwurrung (Ngurraiillam) may have been a clan name, a dialect, or a closely related language.