Blake Barry J. Dialects of Western Kulin, Western Victoria Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung, Djadjawurrung

La Trobe University, 2011. — 204 p.This book presents a consolidated account from scattered sources collected in the nineteenth century on the southern and eastern dialects of Western Kulin, namely Yartwatjali, Tjapwurrung and Djadjawurrung. The Kulin languages covered most of central and western Victoria. On the basis of grammatical and lexical forms three Kulin languages can be picked out. Eastern Kulin covered central Victoria from Westernport and Port Philip Bay in the south almost to Echuca on the Murray in the north. Wathawurrung covered an area that took in Geelong and Ballarat. The third and
largest Kulin language is Western Kulin, which covered western Victoria from around Hamilton in the south and extended into the southeast of South Australia and into the southwest corner of New South Wales. It consisted of a chain of closely related dialects and any attempt to group these dialects runs into both the problem of breaking up a continuity and the problem of the fragmentary nature of the sources.