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Kulinic
Kulin–Bunganditj
Geographic distribution	Victoria (Australia)
Linguistic classification	Pama–Nyungan Southeastern Victorian Kulin–Bunganditj Kulinic
Subdivisions	Kulin Kolakngat Drual
Language codes
Glottolog	kuli1256
Kulinic languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). Along the coast, the three groups are (west to east) Drual, Kolakngat, Kulin.

The Kulinic languages form a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family in Victoria (Australia). They are:

• Kulin (3+, e.g. Woiwurrung)
• Kolakngat
• Drual (2)

Warrnambool is Kulinic and may be Drual, but is too poorly attested to be certain. Gadubanud was a dialect of either Warrnambool or Kolakngat. Several poorly attested interior Kulinic languages, such as Wemba-Wemba, are listed in the Kulin article.

The three branches of Kulinic are not close; Dixon treats them as three separate families.

Bibliography

• Dixon, R. M. W. 2002. Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press

References

1. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
2. Barry Blake (2003) The Bunganditj (Buwandik) language of the Mount Gambier Region, p 17 ff.
3. S71 Gadubanud at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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