The Garawan languages, also spelled Garrwan and also known as Yanyi, are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia across the Northern Territory and Queensland. The family comprises the Garawa and Waanyi languages together with the extinct Gunindiri, and its wider affiliation within a proposed Macro-Pama-Nyungan grouping remains uncertain.
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Proto-Language StatusNot yet reconstructed as of Dixon (2002), though considered straightforward to reconstruct given how closely related Garawa and Wanyi are. 1 In the Other Atlases
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The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.
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The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.
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The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa-Wanji.
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