Mayabic, or Mayi, is a small family of extinct
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 ...
of
Queensland
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. They were once classified as
Paman, but now as a separate branch of
Pama–Nyungan.
The languages are:
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Mayi-Kutuna,
Mayi-Kulan (incl. Mayi-Thakurti, Mayi-Yapi),
Ngawun (incl. Wunumara)
According to Dixon (2002), Wunumara may have been a dialect of Ngawun or of Mayi-Kulan, which may have been a single language.
[Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). ''Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development.'' Cambridge University Press.] Bowern (2011
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, however, lists all six of the above as separate languages.
External links
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Paradisec has an open access collection of
Gavan Breen'
materials for Wunumara
References
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Extinct languages of Queensland
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