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Yuyu language

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Yuyu
RegionSouth Australia
Extinct(date missing)
Dialects
  • Ngintait (Inteck)
  • Ngarkat (Ngarrket)
  • Yirawirung (Erawirung)
  • Ngawait
Language codes
ISO 639-3yxu (proposed[2])
AIATSIS[1]S19

Yuyu 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. ^ a b S19 Yuyu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia? (corrected[1])