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Garawan languages
Language family of northern Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.
The languages are:
Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.[1]
Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.[2] The languages are close: Dixon (2002)[citation needed] says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.
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Vocabulary
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items:[3]
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