Nauo language

Nauo
Region Eyre Peninsula, South Australia
Extinct 19th century
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nwo
Glottolog nauo1235[2]
AIATSIS[3] L2

Nauo (also recorded as Nhawu, Nawo, Njao, and other variations) is an extinct and little-recorded Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken by the Nauo people on the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Tindale in 1974 considered the language extinct by the time of linguistic investigations done to determine Nauo's status in the 1930s.

Classification

The Nauo language may have been related to the languages of its regional neighbors on the Eyre Peninsula, such as Barngarla or Wirangu.

References

  1. Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999).
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nauo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Nauo at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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