Wagaydyic languages
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Wagaydyic | |
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Geographic distribution: |
Daly River |
Linguistic classification: | unclassified |
Subdivisions: |
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Glottolog: | None wadj1254 (covered by Wadjiginy)[1] |
Wagaydyic is a pair of closely related but otherwise unclassified Australian Aboriginal languages, Wadjiginy (Wagaydy) and Kandjerramalh (Pungupungu).
Tryon (1987) notes that the two languages are 80% cognate, but there are serious grammatical differences that prevent them from being considered dialects of a single language.[2]
The unattested Giyug may have been related. The Wagaydyic languages have previously been classified with Malak-Malak into a Northern Daly family, but similarities appear to be due to lexical and morphological borrowing from Malak-Malak, at least in Wadjiginy.
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References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "covered by Wadjiginy". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Pungupungu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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