Gippsland languages

Gippsland
Gippsland
Geographic; distribution	Gippsland, New South Wales
Linguistic classification	Pama–Nyungan Southeastern Victorian Eastern Victoria Gippsland; ; ; ;
Subdivisions	Gaanay (Kurnai); Dhudhuroa; Pallanganmiddang;
Glottolog	None; gana1268 (Birrdhawal); dhud1237 (Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang)
	Gippsland languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). The section on the coast is Gaanay.

The Gippsland languages are a family of Pama–Nyungan languages of Australia.^[1] They were spoken in the Gippsland region, the southernmost part of mainland Australia, on the Bass Strait. There are three rather distant branches; these are often considered single languages, though the dialects of Gaanay are sometimes counted separately:

Gippsland
- Gaanay
  (Kurnai)
  - Muk-thang
  - Nulit
  - Thangquai
  - Bidhawal
- Dhudhuroa
- Pallanganmiddang

All are now extinct. The Gippsland languages, especially Gaanay, have phonotactics that are unusual for mainland Australian languages, but characteristic of Tasmanian languages.

^{[East Victoria = Yorta-Yortic + Gaanay + Pallanganmiddang
(Dhudhuroa not addressed)]}

References

^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

[1] Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

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