Wergaia language

Wergaia
Wergaia
Region	Victoria
Ethnicity	Wergaia, Wotjobaluk
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Kulinic Kulin Wemba-Wemba Wergaia; ; ; ;
Dialects	Biwadjali; Wudjubalug;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; weg – Wergaia; xwt – Wotjobaluk
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS	S17
ELP	Wergaia
	Map of Victorian Aborigines language territories

Wergaia or Werrigia is an Australian Aboriginal language in the Wimmera region of north-Western Victoria. The Wergaia language consisted of four distinct dialects: Wudjubalug/Wotjobaluk, Djadjala/Djadjali, Buibadjali, Biwadjali. Wergaia was in turn apparently a dialect of the Wemba Wemba language, a member of the Kulinic branch of Pama–Nyungan.

The Aboriginal people who speak Wergaia dialects include the Maligundidj or Wergaia people, which means the people belonging to the mali (mallee) eucalypt bushland which covers much of their territory, and the Wotjobaluk people.

In mid-2021 a language revival project started up at the Wotjobaluk Knowledge Place, established in December 2020 at Dimboola. A Wergaia language program would run over 20 weeks.

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