Gippsland languages

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)[1]; dhud1237 (Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang)[2]
	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.[3] They are spoken in the Gippsland region, the southernmost part of mainland Australia, on the Bass Strait. There are three rather distant branches; these often considered single languages, though the dialects of Gaanay are sometimes counted separately:

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.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Birrdhawal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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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[Glottolog2-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Birrdhawal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Glottolog3-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dhudhuroa–Pallanganmiddang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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