Giyug language

Giyug
Native to Australia
Region Daly River; Anson Bay, Peron Islands, southwest of Darwin.
Extinct before the 1920s[1]
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 giy
Glottolog giyu1238[2]
AIATSIS[1] N226*

Giyug is an extinct and unattested Australian Aboriginal language. It may (or may not) have been close to Wagaydy—perhaps a dialect—but is otherwise unknown.

References

  1. 1 2 Giyug at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Giyug". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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