AWK ISO 639-3
Awabakal
Awabakalkoba Autonym
A language of Australia
- ISO 639
- awk
- Alternate Names
- Awabagal, Hunter River – Lake Macquarie
- Autonym
- Awabakalkoba
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. Survived late into the 19th century.
- Location:
- New South Wales state: Lake Macquarie, south from Newcastle.
- Language Status
- 9 (Dormant).
- Classification
- Australian, Pama-Nyungan, Worimi
- Dialects
- Awabagal, Cameeragal, Wonarua.
- Language Use
- Shifted to English [eng].
- Language Development
- Bible portions: 1891. Long extinct, but there are attempts at revival (Wurm 2007). Awabakal Cultural Resource Association is doing revival work, and Many Rivers Aboriginal Language Center is running the Awabakal and Wonnarua (HRLM) Language Revitalization program (2007).
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Awabakal
- Writing
- Latin script [Latn].
Also Spoken in
Map
Location: New South Wales state: Lake Macquarie, south from Newcastle.
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