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'Woiwurrung' (sometimes spelt ''Woiwurrong'', ''Woiworung'', ''Wuywurung'') is an Indigenous Australian language spoken by some of the Kulin Nation clans of Victoria, from Mount Baw Baw in the east to Mount Macedon, Sunbury and Gisborne in the west.
The Woiwurrung clans inhabited the Yarra River (called Birrarung in Woiwurrung) before European displacement. The clans include:

★ The 'Wurrundjeri-willam', who occupied the Yarra River and its tributaries and inhabited the area now covered by the city of Melbourne. Referred to initially by Europeans as the Yarra tribe.

★ The 'Marin-Bulluk'

★ The 'Kurung-Jang-Bulluk'

★ The 'Wurundjeri-Balluk'

★ The 'Balluk-willam'
Wurundjeri is now the common term for descendants of all the Woiwurrung clans. Their totems are Bunjil the eagle and Waa the crow.
The Jindyworobak Movement claimed to have taken their name from a Woiwurrung phrase ''jindi worobak'' meaning to annex or join.

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Consonants

See also

Reference

External links

Consonants

		Labial	Apical	Laminal		Dorsal	Velar	Alveolar	Retroflex
				Dental	Palatal
Stop
Nasal
Lateral
Rhotic
Glide

==Pronouns==
In the case of the woiwurrung pronouns, the stem seems to be the standard ngali (you and I), but the front was suffixed to wa-, so wa+ngal combines to form wangal below.

	Singular	dual	plural
1st person inclusive
1st person exclusive
2nd person	,
3rd person

''Translation of the words''

★ Wangal = you and I.

★ Wangan = we two.

★ Munyi gurrabil = they two.

★ Munyi gurrabila = they.

See also

★ Kulin

★ Wurundjeri

Reference

Barry J. Blake. 1991 Woiwurrung In: The Aboriginal Language of Melbourne and Other Sketches, ed. R. M. W. Dixon and Barry J. Blake, pp. 31-124, OUP, Handbook of Australian Languages 4.

External links

★ About the Wurundjeri People

★ Elders pass on songs in race to save languages

★ Woiwurrung calendar