| Garawan | |
|---|---|
| Yanyi, Garrwan | |
| Geographic distribution | Northern Territory and Queensland |
| Linguistic classification | Macro-Pama–Nyungan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | garr1260 |
 Garawan and Tangkic (green). Garawan is the group inland. | |
The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.
The languages are:
Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.[1]
Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.[2] The languages are close: Dixon (2002)[citation needed] says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.
- ^ C23 Gunindiri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)