Warrgamay language

Warrgamay
Biyay
Region Northeast Queensland
Extinct (3 speakers in 1981)
Dialects
Warrgamay
Biyay (Biyaygiri) 1[1]
Biyay 2[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wgy
Glottolog warr1255[3]
AIATSIS[2] Y134

Warrgamay is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of northeast Queensland. It was closely related to Dyirbal.

References

  1. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiii.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Warrgamay at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Warrgamay". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.