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Preferred term

wybNgiyambaa language  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Ngiyambaa language is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup. It was the traditional language of the Wangaaybuwan and Wayilwan peoples of New South Wales, Australia, but is now moribund; according to Donaldson by the 1970s there were only about ten people fluent in Wangaaybuwan, whilst there were only a couple of Wayilwan speakers left.

Entry terms

  • Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa

ISO 639-3 code

  • wyb

Notation

  • wyb

URI

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

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