Nyawaygi language
The Nyawaygi language, also spelt Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, Geugagi, Njawigi, Nyawigi or Nawagi, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken by the Nyawaygi people in North Queensland, on the east coast of Australia. The Nyawaygi language region includes the landscape within the Hinchinbrook Regional Council, Halifax Bay, and Rollingstone.
| Nyawaygi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Nyawaygi |
| Extinct | 2009, with the death of Willie Seaton |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nyt |
| Glottolog | nyaw1247 |
| AIATSIS | Y129 |
| ELP | Nyawaygi |
Nyawaygi had the smallest number of consonants, 12, of any Australian language. It had 7 conjugations, 3 open and 4 closed, the latter including monosyllabic roots, and, in this regard, conserved a feature of proto-Pama–Nyungan lost from contiguous languages.
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