Wayilwan language

E917651

The Wayilwan language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Wayilwan people of New South Wales and is part of the broader Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay language complex.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Wayilwan language canonical 1
Yuwaaliyaay language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language ⓘ
Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ
endangered language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Ngiyampaa Wayilwan ⓘ
Wailwan ⓘ
Wayil ⓘ
Weyilwan ⓘ
belongsToCulturalGroup Aboriginal peoples of New South Wales ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo Gamilaraay language ⓘ
Ngiyampaa language ⓘ
Yuwaalaraay language ⓘ
continent Oceania ⓘ
country Australia ⓘ
ethnicGroup Wayilwan people ⓘ
glottologCode wayi1243 ⓘ
glottologName Wayilwan ⓘ
hasAlternateClassification dialect of Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay complex ⓘ
dialect of Ngiyampaa ⓘ
hasDialectContinuumWith Gamilaraay language ⓘ
Yuwaalaraay language ⓘ
Yuwaalayaay language ⓘ
hasLinguisticDescriptionBy Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ⓘ
linguist Peter Austin ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ
suffixing morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
rich consonant inventory ⓘ
three‑vowel system ⓘ
isComponentOf Aboriginal languages of New South Wales ⓘ
ISO639-3Code wyi ⓘ
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan ⓘ
macroFamily Australian languages ⓘ
partOf Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay language complex ⓘ
Gamilaraay–Yuwaalaraay–Yuwaalayaay language complex ⓘ
primaryWordOrderTendency SOV ⓘ
region north‑central New South Wales ⓘ
spokenIn Australia ⓘ
New South Wales ⓘ
status severely endangered ⓘ
subfamily Wiradhuric ⓘ
linked to: Wiradhuri
subjectOf language revitalisation efforts ⓘ
traditionalSpeakers Wayilwan people ⓘ
traditionalTerritory Barwon–Darling River region ⓘ
north‑western New South Wales ⓘ
typology agglutinative language ⓘ
usedBy Wayilwan community ⓘ
wordOrder flexible word order ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gamilaraay language → closelyRelatedTo → Wayilwan language ⓘ
Gamilaraay → closelyRelatedTo → Yuwaaliyaay language ⓘ
linked to: Wayilwan language