Guyambal language

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Gujambal
Kwiambal
Native toAustralia
Ethnicity Kwiambal, ?Bigambul, ?Kambuwal
Eraattested 1887
Pama–Nyungan
Dialects
  • Gambuwal?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog guya1250
AIATSIS [1] D35  Guyambal, D29  Gambuwal

Gujambal (Guyambal, Kwiambal) is a possible extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It is documented only in a wordlist from 1887. [2] [3] 'Gambuwal' may have been the same language, and may have been a dialect of Bigambul. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 D35 Guyambal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies   (see the info box for additional links)
  2. Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1886). The Australian race : its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Cornell University Library. Melbourne : J. Ferres. pp. 298–299.
  3. Hammarström, Harald (September 2015). "Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: A comprehensive review: Online appendices". Language. 91 (3): s1 –s188. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0049. hdl: 11858/00-001M-0000-0029-1D58-0 . ISSN   1535-0665.