Giimbiyu language

Giimbiyu
Mangerr
Native to Australia
Region Northern Territory
Extinct (perhaps a couple remaining in 1981)[1]
Arnhem Land?
  • Giimbiyu
Dialects
Mangerr
Erri
Urningangga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
zme – Mangerr
urc – Urningangg
err – Erre
Glottolog giim1238[2]
AIATSIS[3] N220*

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Giimbiyu (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

Giimbiyu is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language isolate of northern Australia.

The name Giimbiyu is a Gaagudju word for 'of the stoney country'. It was introduced in Harvey (1992) as a cover term for the named dialects,[3]

In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Giimbiyu languages. However, they are not included in Bowern (2011).[4]

References

  1. ↑ Mangerr at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
    Urningangg at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
    Erre at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Giimbiyu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Giimbiyu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)