Tharawal languages

Tharawal
Ethnicity:	Yuin people
Geographic distribution:	New South Wales, Australia
Linguistic classification:	Pama–Nyungan Yuin–Kuric Yuin Tharawal
Subdivisions:	Tharawal Dhurga Thawa ?Dyirringanj + perhaps Gweagal et al.
Glottolog:	nort2761  (partial overlap)[1] sout2771[2]

Tharawal (Thurawal) is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken along the South Coast of New South Wales.

According to Dixon (2002),^[3] four Tharawal languages are attested, though he does not accept them as related:

Tharawal, Dhurga, Dyirringanj, Thawa

Bowern (2011) lists three–Dharawal, Dhurga, and Thawa—among the Yuin languages.^[4]

Speakers

Peoples who spoke these languages include:

Southern New South Wales group Clans and Families of The Northern Dharawal

• Noron-Geragal
• Targarigal
• Goonamattagal
• Wodi Wodi
• Gweagal (Geawegal)

New South Wales south coast group

• Tharawal
• Dhurga or Thurga (Thoorga, Durga)
• Dyirringanj (Djirringanj)
• Thaua (Thawa)

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Northern Coastal Yuin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Southern Coastal Yuin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. xxxiv–xxxv, ISBN 0-521-47378-0.
4. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780, ISBN 978-0-521-47378-1.