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Preferred term

nwoNauo  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Nauo (also recorded as Nawo, Njao, and other variations) is an extinct and little-recorded Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken by the Nauo people on the southern part of the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Tindale in 1974 considered the language extinct by the time of linguistic investigations done to determine Nauo's status in the 1930s.

Entry terms

  • Nauo language

ISO 639-3 code

  • nwo

Notation

  • nwo

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nwo

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