It was spoken by 15 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham.

Glottolog classifies Wathawurrung as extinct, however various regional programs and initiatives promote the usage and revitalisation of Wathaurong.

Blake reconstructs Wadawurrung consonants as such;[3] Due to the varied nature of attestations of the language, Blake reconstructs Wadawurrung consonants in complacence to the standard features of the Australian Languages.

This is a distinction in indigenous language families of the Australian south-east such as Yuin-Kuric (incl.

[3] There is also fluctuation between 'a' and 'e' as the last vowel in a word ('walart' - possum, compared to 'wollert'),[3] however Blake maintains that they are distinct vowels Select placenames with attested origin in Wathawurrung language terms are; When settler William Cross Yuille asked a local indigenous woman what the name of the lake was, she told him to go away.