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Wagaya language information


Wagaya
Ngarru
RegionNorthern Territory
EthnicityWagaya, Yindjilandji
Extinct(date missing)
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Ngarna
    • South
      • Wagaya
Dialects
  • Wagaya
  • Yindjilandji
  • Bularnu (Dhidhanu, Baringkirri)
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
wga – Wagaya
yil – Yindjilandji
Glottologngar1291  Ngarru / Wagaya-Yindjilandji
bula1255  Bularnu
AIATSIS[1]C16 Wakaya, G12.1 Bularnu, G14 Indjilandji
ELPWakaya
 Yindjilandji[2]

Wagaya (Wakaya) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Yindjilandji (Indjilandji) may have been a separate language.[3] The linguist Gavan Breen recorded two dialects of the language, an Eastern and a Western variety, incorporating their description in his 1974 grammar.[4]

  1. ^ C16 Wakaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Yindjilandji.
  3. ^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521473781.
  4. ^ Breen, Gavan (1974). Wakaya grammar.

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