Yuyu language
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| Yuyu | |
|---|---|
| Yirau, Upper Riverland | |
| Region | South Australia |
| Ethnicity | Ngawait, Erawirung, Ngintait, Ngarkat |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yxu |
| Glottolog | uppe1415 |
| AIATSIS[1] | S19 Yuyu, S18 Ngintait |
Yuyu (Yirau) is an extinct language or dialect cluster of southern South Australia. Walsh treats Yuyu as a language with Ngawait, Erawirung, Ngintait, and Ngarkat as dialects; Berndt and Berndt (1993) list those as dialects related to Yuyu.[2][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b S19 Yuyu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ^ 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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