Wagaya language

Wagaya
Ngarru
Region Northern Territory
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Wagaya
Yindjilandji (Bularnu)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
wga  Wagaya
yil  Yindjilandji
Glottolog ngar1291  (Ngarru / Wagaya-Yindjilandji)[1]
bula1255  (Bularnu)[2]
AIATSIS[3] C16 Wakaya, G12.1 Bularnu

Wagaya (Wakaya) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Yindjilandji (Indjilandji) may have been a separate language.[4]

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngarru / Wagaya-Yindjilandji". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Bularnu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Wakaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780, ISBN 9780521473781.


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