Yiman language

Yiman
(unverified)
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None
AIATSIS[1] E31

Yiman (Jiman) is a possible Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Ethnically the speakers were Bidjara; that and geography suggests that it may have been a Maric language, assuming it was a distinct language at all. It is attested in a word list collected by Meston and held in the State Library of Queensland, but as of 2014 the data had not been verified by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. [1]

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