Garawan languages

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Garawan
Yanyi
Geographic
distribution:
Northern Territory and Queensland
Linguistic classification: Macro-Pama–Nyungan?
  • Greater Pama–Nyungan?
    • Garawan
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: garr1260[1]
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Garawan and Tangkic (green). Garawan is the group inland.

The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken in northern Australia.

The languages are:

Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.[2]

Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.[3] The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.

References

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  2. Gunindiri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

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