| Garawan | |
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| Yanyi | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Northern Territory and Queensland |
| Linguistic classification: |
Macro-Pama–Nyungan?
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| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | garr1260 |
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Garawan and Tangkic (green). Garawan is the group inland.
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The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken in northern Australia.
The languages are:
Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.
Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011. The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.
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