Wirangu | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | West coast of South Australia |
Ethnicity | Wirangu people |
Native speakers | 2 semi-speakers (2007)[1] |
Revival | 2004 |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wgu |
Glottolog | wira1265 |
AIATSIS[2] | C1 |
ELP | Wirangu |
Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999) | |
The Wirangu language, also written Wirrongu, Wirrung, Wirrunga, and Wirangga, and also known by other exonyms, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Wirangu people, living on the west coast of South Australia across a region encompassing modern Ceduna and Streaky Bay, stretching west approximately to the head of the Great Australian Bight and east to Lake Gairdner. It is a language of the Thura-Yura group, and some older sources placed it in a subgroup called Nangga.