Yarli (Yardli) was a dialect cluster of
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
spoken in northwestern
New South Wales and into Northeastern
South Australia individually
Malyangapa (Maljangapa),
Yardliyawara, and
Wadikali (Wardikali, Wadigali). Bowern (2002) notes
Karenggapa as part of the area, but there is little data.
Tindale (1940) groups Wanjiwalku & Karenggapa together with Wadikali & Maljangapa as the only languages in NSW that are behind the 'Rite of Circumcision' border - which suggests Wanjiwalku to also be part of the Yarli area.
Classification
The three varieties are very close. Hercus & Austin (2004) classify them as the Yarli branch of the
Pama–Nyungan family. Dixon (2002) regards the three as
dialects of a single language. Bowern (2002) excludes them from the
Karnic languages, where they had sometimes been classified.
References
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Pama–Nyungan languages
Extinct languages of New South Wales
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