Garawan languages

{{Short description|Language family of northern Australia}}

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{{Infobox language family

|name=Garawan

|altname=Yanyi, Garrwan

|region=Northern Territory and Queensland

|familycolor=Australian

|fam1= Macro-Pama–Nyungan?

|fam2=Greater Pama–Nyungan?

|glotto=garr1260

|glottorefname=Garrwan

|child1=Garawa

|child2=Waanyi

|child3=?Gunindiri

|map=Macro-Pama-Nyungan_languages.png

|mapcaption=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:

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• Garawan
• Garawa (Garrwa, north)
• Waanyi (Wanji, south)
• Gunindiri {{extinct}} (Kurnindirri, southwest)

Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.{{AIATSIS|C23|Gunindiri}}

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Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.Bowern, Claire. 2011. "[http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/how-many-languages-were-spoken-in-australia/ How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?]", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 ([http://pamanyungan.sites.yale.edu/master-list-australian-languages-v12 corrected] February 6, 2012) The languages are close: Dixon (2002){{cn|date=June 2019}} says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.