Wakaya

[aka Akaja, Arkiya, Leewakya]

Classification: Pama-Nyungan

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severely endangered

This is a link to the pdf file created by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and The University of Queensland which provides shared innovations within the Ngumpin-Yapa languages such as phonological, morphological, and lexical changes. There are several common elements between the NGY and Warluwarric groups (which Wakaya is a sub-group of) and so this article presents some linguistic characteristics such as vocabulary and spelling comparisons of the Wakaya language.

Alborz Hariri

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