Ngayawung language

Ngayawung language
Ngayawung
Spoken in South Australia
Extinct ?
Language family
Pama–Nyungan?
  • Lower Murray?
    • Ngayawung
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nwg

Ngayawung (Ngaiawong) in an extinct language of southern South Australia. Dixon considers it an isolate.

The name is also spelled Ngaiyau, Aiawung, Aiawong, Iawung, Nggauaiyowangko; other names are Birta, Pitta, Pieta, Peeita and Meru.



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  • bogong — /boh gawng, gong/, n. a dark colored Australian moth, Agrostis infusa, used by Aborigines as food. [1830 35; earlier bugong, perh. < Ngayawung (Austral Aboriginal language of the lower Murray River, New South Wales) bugun] * * * …   Universalium

  • bogong — /boh gawng, gong/, n. a dark colored Australian moth, Agrostis infusa, used by Aborigines as food. [1830 35; earlier bugong, perh. < Ngayawung (Austral Aboriginal language of the lower Murray River, New South Wales) bugun] * * * bogong var.… …   Useful english dictionary

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