NWO ISO 639-3
Nauo
A language of Australia
- ISO 639
- nwo
- Alternate Names
- Growoo, Naua, Nawo, Nawu, Nowo, Nyaawa
- Population
- No known L1 speakers. There were two potential speakers in the 1920s.
- Location:
- South Australia state: Coffin bay, Elliston, Mount Hope, and Port Lincoln; half of Eyre peninsula; west to Cape Radstock, north past Minnipa; east near Darke peak; west of Cleve and halfway between Carrow and Franklin harbor.
- Language Status
- 10 (Extinct).
- Classification
- Australian, Pama-Nyungan, South-West, Yura
- Dialects
- None known. Reportedly similar to Wirangu [wgu].
- Language Resources
- OLAC resources in and about Nauo
- Writing
- Unwritten [Qaax].
Also Spoken in
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Location: South Australia state: Coffin bay, Elliston, Mount Hope, and Port Lincoln; half of Eyre peninsula; west to Cape Radstock, north past Minnipa; east near Darke peak; west of Cleve and halfway between Carrow and Franklin harbor.
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