Guwa language

Guwa
Goa
Native to Australia
Region "Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xgw
Glottolog guwa1242[3]
AIATSIS[4] G9.1

Guwa (Goa) is an extinct and nearly unattested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. It was apparently close to Yanda.[4]

References

  1. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
  2. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Guwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. 1 2 Guwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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