Wadi Wadi dialect

Wadi-Wadi
Wadi-Wadi
Native to	Australia
Region	Victoria, New South Wales
Ethnicity	Wadi Wadi, Weki Weki?
Native speakers	nearly extinct
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Kulin Wemba-Wemba Madhi–Ladji–Wadi Wadi-Wadi; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Piangil;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xwd
Glottolog	wadi1260
AIATSIS	D4
ELP	Wadi-Wadi

Wadi-Wadi is an extinct Indigenous Australian language once spoken in Victoria and New South Wales.

Clark suggests that Jari Jari is a closely related language,^[4] but this name may refer to other languages.^[5]^[6]

Phonology

	Labial	Velar	Dental	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p	k	t̪	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	n̪	ɲ	n	ɳ
Rhotic					ɾ~r	ɻ
Lateral					l
Approximant	w			j

Vowels are heard as [ɪ, ɛ~ə, ɐ, ʊ] when in lax positions.^[7]

↑ Wadi-Wadi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development: v. 1 (Cambridge Language Surveys). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1
↑ D4 Wadi-Wadi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
↑ Clark, Ian (1996). Aboriginal language areas in Victoria: a reconstruction. Melbourne: Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
↑ Blake, Barry; Reid, Julie (1998). "Classifying Victorian languages". In B. Blake (ed.). Wathawurrung and the Colac language of southern Victoria. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
↑ Horgen, Michael (2004). The languages of the Lower-Murray (MA). La Trobe University.
↑ Blake, Barry J.; Hercus, Luise; Morey, Stephen; Ryan, Edward (2011). The Mathi group of languages. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)