It is a language of the Yuin people, specifically the Wandandian and Walbunja groups, but there have been no fluent speakers officially recorded for decades, so it has been functionally extinct for some time.

[3] In 2015 local Yuin people collaborated with the Tathra Public School in Tathra to create a new app as a teaching aid for both Dhurga and the Thaua language, using old audio recordings of elders as well as documentation created by early explorers and settlers in the region.

One of the major contributors to the project, Graham Moore, has also written an Aboriginal language book.

[6] It was spoken in the Nowra-Jervis Bay area southwards to Narooma, and possibly as far south as Wallaga Lake.

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