Worimi languages

Worimi
Hunter–Hastings
Geographic
distribution:
New South Wales
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: hunt1235[1]

Worimi is a small family of two to five extinct Australian Aboriginal languages of New South Wales.

The languages are close enough to be accepted as related in the conservative classification of Dixon (2002). Bowern (2011) considers Gadjang, Worimi, and Birrpayi to be separate languages.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Hunter–Hastings". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Awaba electronic database: Language, accessed 26 Jan 2010.
  3. Christopher Moseley, Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 070071197X.


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