Kulinic languages

Kulinic
Kulin–Bunganditj
Geographic
distribution		Victoria (Australia)
Linguistic classificationPama–Nyungan
  • Southeastern
    • Victorian
      • Kulin–Bunganditj
        • Kulinic
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologkuli1256
Kulinic languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). Along the coast, the three groups are (west to east) Drual, Kolakngat, Kulin.

The Kulinic languages form a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family in Victoria (Australia). They are:

Warrnambool is Kulinic and may be Drual, but is too poorly attested to be certain. Glottolog now classes both Warrnambool and those languages sometimes classed as Drual in a family, calling it "Warrnambool-Bunganditj", and Kolakngat as in the Kulin family. Gadubanud was a dialect of either Warrnambool or Kolakngat. Several poorly attested interior Kulinic languages, such as Wemba-Wemba, are listed in the Kulin article.

The three branches of Kulinic are not close; Dixon treats them as three separate families.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
  2. ↑ Barry Blake (2003) The Bunganditj (Buwandik) language of the Mount Gambier Region, p 17 ff.
  3. ↑ "Glottolog 5.1 - Kulin-Bunganditj". glottolog.org. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  4. ↑ S71 Gadubanud at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies