Iwaidjan languages
The Iwaidjan or Yiwaidjan languages are a small family of non-Pama–Nyungan Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land.
| Iwaidjan | |
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| Geographic distribution | Cobourg Peninsula region, Northern Territory |
| Linguistic classification | Arnhem Land?
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| Glottolog | iwai1246 |
Iwaidjan languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
Closeup. Amurdag is the southern section (tan), Wurrugu the tip of the peninsula (green), the rest Iwaidjic (purple). On the grey island just offshore is Marrgu, once thought to be Iwaidjan. | |
In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Iwaidjan languages, though their inclusion is not accepted in Bowern (2011).
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