Ngayawung language

Ngayawung
	Lower Riverland
Region	South Australia
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Lower Murray Ngayawung; ;
Dialects	Ngayawang; Nganguruku; Ngaralti (Ngaralda)?;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nwg
Glottolog	lowe1402[1]
AIATSIS[2]	S7 Ngaiawang, S4 Ngaralti, S6 Nganguruku

Ngayawung (Ngaiawong) is an extinct language of southern South Australia, spoken by the Ngaiawang people.

The name is also spelled Ngaiyau, Aiawung, Aiawong, Iawung, Nggauaiyowangko; other names are Birta, Pitta, Pieta, Peeita and Meru.

References

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Riverland". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Ngaiawang at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)

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