Nyawaygi
Nyawaygi was a Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in Australia.
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The Nyawaygi language, also spelt 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 has the smallest number of consonants, 12, of any Australian language. It has 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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Words in Nyawaygi
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | diNa* | |
| name | yiyil* | |
| eye | buyin* | |
| ear | bina* | |
| nose | wuru* | |
| tooth | yira* | |
| tongue | dala5* | |
| hand | 5igi5* | |
| blood | guma* | |
| bone | dulgil* | |
| skin | yuNga* | |
| knee | mugu* | |
| breast | Namun* | |
| liver | gibagiba* | |
| water | yagu | |
| fire | danu* | |
| sun | dula* | |
| star | garuman* | |
| stone | balgal* | |
| mountain | muNan* | |
| tree | danu* | |
| leaf | didala* | |
| night | gundarmu* | |
| dog | gawayal* | |
| fish | Nudu* | |
| louse | banda5* | |
| one | yuNgul* | |
| two | yaga* | |
| I | Naba* | |
| you | Ninba* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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