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Preferred term

aoiAnindilyakwa  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Enindhilyagwa (several other names; see below) is an Australian language isolate spoken by the Warnindhilyagwa people on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. A 2001 Australian government identified more than one thousand speakers of the language, although there are reports of as many as three thousand. In 2008, it was cited in a study on whether humans had an innate ability to count without having words for numbers. While the Enindhilyagwa language traditionally had terms for numbers up to twenty, these are no longer known to younger speakers.

Entry terms

  • Enindhilyagwa language

ISO 639-3 code

  • aoi

Notation

  • aoi

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/aoi

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