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Yanda
Native to Australia
Region"Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland
Ethnicity Yanda
Extinct(date missing) [1]
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified, possibly Maric) [2] [3]
    • Guwa–Yanda
      • Yanda
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yda
Glottolog yand1251
AIATSIS [4] G9
ELP Yanda

Yanda is an extinct and nearly unattested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. It was apparently close to Guwa. [4]

References

  1. ^ Yanda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
  3. ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. " How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 ( corrected February 6, 2012)
  4. ^ a b G9 Yanda at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies