The Wagaydyic languages (nowadays more often referred to as the
Anson Bay languages) are a pair of closely related but otherwise unclassified
Australian Aboriginal languages: the moribund
Wadjiginy (also known as Wagaydy and Batjamalh) and the extinct
Kandjerramalh (Pungupungu).
Tryon (1980) notes that the two languages are 79% cognate based on a 200-item wordlist, but there are serious grammatical differences that prevent them from being considered dialects of a single language.
The unattested
Giyug may have been a dialect of Wadjiginy or otherwise related.
The Wagaydyic languages have previously been classified with
Malak-Malak into a
Northern Daly family, but similarities appear to be due to lexical and morphological borrowing from Malak-Malak, at least in Wadjiginy.
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary items of Wadjiginy and Pungupungu are from Tryon (1968).
[Tryon, Darrell T. "The Daly River Languages: A Survey". In Aguas, E.F. and Tryon, D. editors, ''Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 3''. A-14:21-49. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1968. ]
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See also
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Daly languages
The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Classification
In the lexicostatistic classification ...
References
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Language families
Daly languages