Flinders Island is an extinct Australian aboriginal language spoken off the coast of

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, Australia. It is unconfirmed as a distinct language. The inhabitants of the island were the Aba Yalgayi. One of the last known speakers of the language was Johnny Flinders.

Names

The name ''Biyalgeyi'' have been used, but there is no evidence it refers to a language. ''Yalgawarra'' is a clan name.

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* Extinct languages of Queensland Indigenous Australian languages in Queensland Languages extinct in the 2000s Paman languages {{ia-lang-stub