 Gunditjmara is formed from two words "Gunditj" an affix signifying 'belonging' and "mara", their word for an aboriginal person of that area.The Dhauwurd wurrung language is classified as one of the dialects of the Kuurn Kopan Noot language|Bungandeik/Kuurn-Kopan-Noot subgroup of Victorian languages.It consisted of five subdialects