Yarli language

Yarli
Region Northwestern New South Wales.
Native speakers
 possibly extinct; 2 speakers in 1987 (2004)[1]
Malyangapa extinct 1976 with the death of Laurie Quayle. Wadikali extinct before that.[1]
Pama–Nyungan

  • Yarli–Baagandji

    • Yarli
Dialects
  • Malyangapa
  • Yardliyawarra
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
yxl – Yardliyawarra
yga – Malyangapa
wdk – Wadikali (Malyangapa dialect)
Glottolog yarl1236[2]
AIATSIS[3] L8 Malyangapa, L7 Yardliyawara

Yardli languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

Yarli (Yardli) was a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northwestern New South Wales, individually Malyangapa (Maljangapa), Yardliyawarra, and Wadikali (Wardikali, Wadigali). Bowern (2002) notes Karenggapa as part of the area, but there is little data.

Classification

The three varieties are very close. Hercus & Austin (2004) classify them as the Yarli branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. Dixon (2002) regards the three as dialects of a single language. Bowern (2002) excludes them from the Karnic languages, where they had sometimes been classified.

References

  1. 1 2 Yardliyawarra at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Malyangapa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Wadikali (Malyangapa dialect) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yarli". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Malyangapa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)


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