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Giyug language

Extinct Australian aboriginal language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giyug is an extinct and unattested Australian Aboriginal language. It may (or may not) have been close to Wagaydy—perhaps a dialect—but is otherwise unknown. According to Ian Green, it went extinct before the 1920s.

NativetoAustralia
RegionDaly River; Anson Bay, Peron Islands, southwest of Darwin.
Extinctby 1920s[1]
2 (1981)[2]
unclassified (Wagaydyic?)
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Giyug
Kiyuk
(unattested)
Native toAustralia
RegionDaly River; Anson Bay, Peron Islands, southwest of Darwin.
Extinctby 1920s[1]
2 (1981)[2]
unclassified (Wagaydyic?)
Language codes
ISO 639-3giy
Glottologgiyu1238
AIATSIS[1]N226
ELPGiyug
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