[1][2] Dhudhuroa has been classified as belonging to the Gippsland branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family.
[3] Robert M. W. Dixon classifies it, with Pallanganmiddang, as one of the two languages comprising an Upper Murray Group.
It includes Tallangatta and the Murray River Valley land from Jingellic and Tintaldra to Albury.
[5] The early Australian ethnographer Alfred Howitt categorized the Dhudhuroa as a horde of the Jaitmathang,[7] an opinion shared by Aldo Massola in 1962.
[9] Linguistically however the vocabulary they used differed from that noted down from tribal informants of various hordes of the Jaitmattang.