Wadikali language

Wadikali
Spoken in	Northwestern New South Wales.
Extinct	Early 20th century.
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Yarli Wadikali
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	0u8

Wadikali (also spelt Wardikali, Wadigali, Nadikali) was an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Wadikali people of northwestern New South Wales.

Classification

Wadikali is closely related to Malyangapa yga and Yardliyawarra, which together form the Yarli subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan languages according to Hercus & Austin (2004). Dixon (2002) regards the three as dialects of a single language.

References

• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxxvii. 
• Hercus, Luise; Austin, Peter (2004). "The Yarli Languages". In Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (eds.). Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 207–222.