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Central New South Wales languages

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Central New South Wales
(geographic)
Geographic
distribution
New South Wales
Linguistic classificationPama–Nyungan?
  • Central New South Wales
Subdivisions
GlottologNone

The Central New South Wales languages (Central NSW) are a geographic grouping of Australian Aboriginal languages within the traditional Pama–Nyungan family, partially overlapping the Kuri subgroup of the Yuin–Kuric languages.

The languages are:

Bowern (2011) uses the term Central NSW as a synonym for the Wiradhuric languages, elsewhere known as Central Inland NSW.

References

  • Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press.