Iwaidjan | |
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Geographic distribution | Cobourg Peninsula region, Northern Territory |
Linguistic classification | Arnhem Land?
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | iwai1246 |
Iwaidjan languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
Closeup. Amurdag is the southern section (tan), Wurrugu the tip of the peninsula (green), the rest Iwaidjic (purple). On the grey island just offshore is Marrgu, once thought to be Iwaidjan. |
The Iwaidjan or Yiwaidjan languages are a small family of non-Pama–Nyungan Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land.
In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Iwaidjan languages, though their inclusion is not accepted in Bowern (2011).[1]