Yuyu language

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Yuyu
Yirau, Upper Riverland
RegionSouth Australia
EthnicityNgawait, Erawirung, Ngintait, Ngarkat
Extinct(date missing)Category:Language articles with unknown extinction date
Dialects
  • Ngintait (Inteck)
  • Ngarkat (Ngarrket)
  • Yirawirung (Erawirung)
  • Ngawait
Language codes
ISO 639-3yxu
Glottologuppe1415
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

  1. 1 2 S19 Yuyu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. ↑ 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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