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. 1 2 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.
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