Nhuwala language explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method