Sound change in Kulin

When the British took over what is now Victoria in the nineteenth century, a group of closely related tongues was spoken over most of the western and central part of the state. Schmidt called these tongues Kuliyn from the word kuliyn ‘man’ which occurred in central Victoria (Schmidt 1919). We will retain Schmidt’s term kulin and we use the term ‘tongue’ where we want to avoid the distinction between language and dialect.