Djadjawurrung language facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Djadjawurrung
Region	Victoria
Ethnicity	Dja Dja Wurrung people
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Kulin Wemba-Wemba Djadjawurrung
AIATSIS	`S31.1`
The five Kulin nations. Djadjawurrung is in the northwest in blue.

Djadjawurrung (also Jaara, Ngurai-illam-wurrung) is an Aboriginal Australian language spoken by the Dja Dja Wurrung people of the Kulin nation of central Victoria. Djadjawurrung was spoken by 16 clans around Murchison, the central highlands region, east to Woodend, west to the Pyrenees, north to Boort and south to the Great Dividing Range.

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Stop	⟨p⟩ p	⟨t⟩ t	⟨rt⟩ ʈ	⟨tj⟩, ⟨yt⟩ c	⟨k⟩ k
Nasal	⟨m⟩ m	⟨n⟩ n	⟨rn⟩ ɳ	⟨ny⟩, ⟨yn⟩ ɲ	⟨ng⟩ ŋ
Lateral		⟨l⟩ l	⟨rl⟩ ɭ	⟨ly⟩, ⟨yl⟩ ʎ
Rhotic		⟨rr⟩ r	⟨r⟩ ɽ
Approximant	⟨w⟩ w			⟨y⟩ j

There are four vowels noted: /i e a u/. They may also be phonetically written as /i ɛ~e a ʊ~u/.