Nyawaygi language
The Nyawaygi language, also spelt Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, or Nawagi, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken in northeast Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.
| Nyawaygi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Nyawaygi |
| Extinct | 2009, with the death of Willie Seaton[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyt |
| Glottolog | nyaw1247 |
| AIATSIS[2] | Y129 |
| ELP | Nyawaygi[3] |
Nyawaygi had the smallest number of consonants, 12, of any Australian language. It had 7 conjugations, 3 open and 4 closed, the latter including monosyllabic roots, and, in this regard, conserved a feature of proto-Pama–Nyungan lost from contiguous languages.[4]
Notes
- Dixon, R. M. W. (10 December 2010). I Am a Linguist: With a Foreword by Peter Matthews. ISBN 978-9004192355.
- Y129 Nyawaygi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Endangered Languages Project data for Nyawaygi.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (1983). "Nyawagyi". In Dixon, Robert M. W.; Blake, Barry J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian Languages. Volume 3. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 431–523. ISBN 978-9-027-27353-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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