Garawan languages

Garawan
Yanyi, Garrwan
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 currently 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

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Garrwan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  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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