Kayardild language

Kayardild language

Infobox Language
name=Kayardild
familycolor=Australian
fam1= Macro-Pama-Nyungan
fam2=Greater Pama-Nyungan
fam3=Tankic
region=Bentinck Island, north west Queensland, Australia
speakers=10
iso3=gyd

Kayardild is a Tangkic language spoken on Bentinck Island, north west Queensland, Australia, with fewer than ten fluent speakers remaining.

References

* Evans Nicholas. 1995. A Grammar of Kayardild. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
* Evans, Nicholas. 1995. The Kayardild language. In Julia Robinson, ed. Voices of Queensland. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
* Evans, Nicholas. 1995. Multiple case in Kayardild: anti-iconicity and the diachronic filter. In F. Plank, ed., Double case. Agreement by Suffixaufnahme. Oxford: University Press. Pp. 396-428.
* Evans, Nicholas. 1992. Kayardild Dictionary and Thesaurus. University of Melbourne: Department of Linguistics and Language Studies.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gyd Ethnologue reports on Kayardild]


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