Wadjiginy language

Wadjiginy
	Wogait
	Patjtjamalh
Native to	Australia
Region	Daly River
Ethnicity	Wadjiginy
Native speakers	5 (2005)[1]
Language family	Wagaydyic Wadjiginy;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wdj
Glottolog	wadj1254[2]
AIATSIS[1]	N31
Linguasphere	28-fbb-a

Wadjiginy, also known as Wagaydy (Wogait) and Batjamalh, is an Australian Aboriginal language. Apart from being closely related to Kandjerramalh, it is not known to be related to any other language, though it has borrowed grammatical and lexical material from neighboring Northern Daly languages.[1]

Wadjiginy (Wadyiginy, Wagaydy, Wogaity) is the name of the people; the language is Patjtjamalh (Batjamalh, Batytyamalh).[1]

References

N31 Wadjiginy at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wadjiginy". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Batjamalh at the Dalylanguages.org website.

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[AIATSIS-1] N31 Wadjiginy at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wadjiginy". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.