Nhuwala | |
States: | Western Australia |
Region: | Barrow and Monte Bello Islands and nearby coast |
Extinct: | Late 1990s |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Australian |
Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
Fam2: | Ngayarda |
Iso3: | nhf |
Glotto: | nhuw1239 |
Glottorefname: | Nhuwala |
Aiatsis: | W30 |
Nhuwala is a possibly extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. Dench (1995) believed there was insufficient data to enable it to be confidently classified, but Bowern & Koch (2004) include it among the Ngayarda languages without proviso.[1]