Wayilwan language

E917651

The Wayilwan language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Wayilwan people of New South Wales and is part of the broader Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay language complex.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Wayilwan language canonical 1
Yuwaaliyaay language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
endangered language
alsoKnownAs Ngiyampaa Wayilwan
Wailwan
Wayil
Weyilwan
belongsToCulturalGroup Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales
closelyRelatedTo Gamilaraay language
Ngiyampaa language
Yuwaalaraay language
continent Oceania
country Australia
ethnicGroup Wayilwan people
glottologCode wayi1243
glottologName Wayilwan
hasAlternateClassification dialect of Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay complex
dialect of Ngiyampaa
hasDialectContinuumWith Gamilaraay language
Yuwaalaraay language
Yuwaalayaay language
hasLinguisticDescriptionBy Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
linguist Peter Austin
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
ergative–absolutive alignment
suffixing morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
three‑vowel system
isComponentOf Aboriginal languages of New South Wales
ISO639-3Code wyi
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan
macroFamily Australian languages
partOf Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay language complex
Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay–Yuwaalayaay language complex
primaryWordOrderTendency SOV
region north‑central New South Wales
spokenIn Australia
New South Wales
status severely endangered
subfamily Wiradhuric
linked to: Wiradhuri
subjectOf language revitalisation efforts
traditionalSpeakers Wayilwan people
traditionalTerritory Barwon–Darling River region
north‑western New South Wales
typology agglutinative language
usedBy Wayilwan community
wordOrder flexible word order
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gamilaraay language closelyRelatedTo Wayilwan language
Gamilaraay closelyRelatedTo Yuwaaliyaay language
linked to: Wayilwan language