Wulna (Wuna) is an extinct indigenous language of Australia. It had one speaker left in 1981. It is poorly attested and only tentatively classified as being related to Limilngan.

The State Library of New South Wales ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

has an original copy o
Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory
by John W. O. Bennett (published in 1869) which it has made available online as scanned images. The book documents the vocabulary and pronunciation of Wulna in general, in addition to place names from the Adelaide River region of Norther Territory. The original copy has been annotated by

Paul Foelsche Paul Foelsche (30 March 1831 – 31 January 1914) was a South Australian police officer and photographer born in Germany,Noye, R. J.'Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831–1914)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of ...

, the first police inspector of Northern Territory, who has added his own words to the vocabulary list, and his own corrections on pronunciation.

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Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...

has an open access collection of

Gavan Breen Gavan Breen (born 22 January 1935), OAM, also known as J.G. Breen, is an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He has studied and recorded 49 such languages. Life Early life Breen was born at ...

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materials for Wulna
* A scanned online copy o
Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory by John W. O. Bennett (published 1869, annotated by Paul Foelsche)
on the State Library of New South Wales' website

References

Limilngan–Wulna languages Endangered indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory {{ia-lang-stub