Nyawaygi language

Nyawaygi
Nyawaygi
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Nyawaygi
Extinct	2009, with the death of Willie Seaton[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Dyirbalic Nyawaygic Nyawaygi; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nyt
Glottolog	nyaw1247
AIATSIS[2]	Y129
ELP	Nyawaygi

The Nyawaygi language, also spelt Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, or Nawagi, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken in northeast Queensland, on the east coast of Australia.

Nyawaygi had the smallest number of consonants, 12, of any Australian language. It had 7 conjugations, 3 open and 4 closed, the latter including monosyllabic roots, and, in this regard, conserved a feature of proto-Pama–Nyungan lost from contiguous languages.[3]

Notes

Dixon, R. M. W. (10 December 2010). I Am a Linguist: With a Foreword by Peter Matthews. ISBN 978-9004192355.
Y129 Nyawaygi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Dixon, R. M. W. (1983). "Nyawagyi". In Dixon, Robert M. W.; Blake, Barry J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian Languages. Vol. 3. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 431–523. ISBN 978-9-027-27353-6.

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[1] Dixon, R. M. W. (10 December 2010). I Am a Linguist: With a Foreword by Peter Matthews. ISBN 978-9004192355.

[AIATSIS-2] Y129 Nyawaygi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[3] Dixon, R. M. W. (1983). "Nyawagyi". In Dixon, Robert M. W.; Blake, Barry J. (eds.). Handbook of Australian Languages. Vol. 3. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 431–523. ISBN 978-9-027-27353-6.