Yanyuwa language
Pama–Nyungan language of northern Australia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yanyuwa (IPA: [jaṉuwa]) is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola (Yanyuwa: Burrulula) in the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Yanyuwa | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Northern Territory |
Ethnicity | Yanyuwa, Wadiri |
Native speakers | 47 (2021 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | jao |
Glottolog | yany1243 |
AIATSIS[2] | N153 |
ELP | Yanyuwa |
Yanyuwa is the patch of yellow on the northern coast, between the orange and the green. | |
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Yanyuwa, like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, is a highly agglutinative language with ergative-absolutive alignment, whose grammar is pervaded by a set of 16 noun classes whose agreements are complicated and numerous.
Yanyuwa is a critically endangered language. The anthropologist John Bradley has worked with the Yanyuwa people for three decades and is also a speaker of Yanyuwa. He has produced a large dictionary and grammar of the language,[3] along with a cultural atlas in collaboration with a core group of senior men and women.