Mayabic languages

Mayabic
Mayi
Geographic
distribution:
Queensland
Linguistic classification:

Pama–Nyungan

  • Mayabic
Glottolog: maya1279[1]

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Mayabic languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

Mayabic, or Mayi, is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages of Queensland. They were once classified as Paman, but now as a separate branch of Pama–Nyungan.[2]

The languages are:

According to Dixon (2002), Wunumara may have been a dialect of Ngawun or of Mayi-Kulan, which may have been a single language.[3] Bowern (2011 [2012]), however, lists all six of the above as separate languages.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mayabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  3. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press.


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