Wurrugu language

Wurrugu
	Popham Bay
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Ethnicity	Wurango
Extinct	Attested in the 19th century
Language family	Marrku–Wurrugu? Wurrugu;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wur
Glottolog	wurr1238
AIATSIS[1]	N37

The Wurrugu language, or Wurango, also known as the Popham Bay language, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It is known from just a few 19th-century wordlists and one rememberer.

References

N37 Wurrugu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Evans, N. (1996). First and last notes on Wurrugu. University of Melbourne Working Papers in Linguistics, 16, 91–98.

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[AIATSIS-1] N37 Wurrugu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies