Nyiyaparli language

Nyiyaparli
"Nijadali"
Native to Western Australia
Native speakers
3  (2005 & 2006 census)[1]
(census data seem to be repeated for Jauna & Palyku)[1]
Dialects
Palyku
Jauna
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
nad  Nijadali
xny  Nyiyaparli (duplicate code)[3]
Glottolog nija1241[4]
AIATSIS[1] A50

Nyiyaparli (Nyiyabali, Njijabali), or misspelled Nijadali, is a nearly extinct Pama–Nyungan language spoken by the Palyku (Bailko) and Jauna (Jana) people of Western Australia.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nyiyaparli at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Bowern & Koch (2004) Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method
  3. The "d" in "Nijadali" is apparently a typo for "b"
  4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nijadali". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.