Wawula dialect

{{Short description|Wati language of Australia}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Wawula

| altname = Waula

| region = south-east of Meekatharra

| ethnicity = Wardal?, Madoidja?

| ref = aiatsis

| familycolor = Australian

| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan

| fam2 = Wati

| fam3 =

| ld1 = Martu Wangka

| glotto = none

| glottorefname =

| aiatsis = A29

}}

Wawula is one of the Wati languages of the Pama–Nyungan family of Australia. It is sometimes counted as a dialect of the Western Desert Language, but is classified as a distinct language by Bowern and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.Claire Bowern and Quentin Atkinson. 2012. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan. Language 88. 817-845. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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