Kayardild language

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Kayardild
Spoken in: Bentinck Island, north west Queensland, Australia
Total speakers: 10
Language family:
 Kayardild
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: gyd

Kayardild is a Tangkic language spoken on Bentinck Island, north west Queensland, Australia, with fewer than ten fluent speakers remaining.

[edit] References

  • Evans Nicholas. 1995. A Grammar of Kayardild. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Evans, Nicholas. 1995. The Kayardild language. In Julia Robinson, ed. Voices of Queensland. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Evans, Nicholas. 1995. Multiple case in Kayardild: anti-iconicity and the diachronic filter. In F. Plank, ed., Double case. Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. Oxford: University Press. Pp. 396-428.
  • Evans, Nicholas. 1992. Kayardild Dictionary and Thesaurus. University of Melbourne: Department of Linguistics and Language Studies.

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