Garawan languages

Garawan
	Yanyi, Garrwan
Geographic; distribution	Northern Territory and Queensland
Linguistic classification	Macro-Pama–Nyungan? Greater Pama–Nyungan? Garawan; ;
Subdivisions	Garawa; Waanyi; ?Gunindiri;
Glottolog	garr1260[1]
	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:

Garawa (Garrwa, north)
Waanyi † (Wanji, south)
Gunindiri † (Kurnindirri, southwest)

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

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Garrwan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
C23 Gunindiri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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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[Glottolog-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] C23 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)