Giyug language

{{Short description|Extinct Australian aboriginal language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Giyug

| nativename =

| states = Australia

| region = Daly River; Anson Bay, Peron Islands, southwest of Darwin.

| extinct = by 1920s

| ref = aiatsis

| familycolor = Australian

| family = unclassified (Wagaydyic?)

| iso3 = giy

| aiatsis = N226

| glotto = giyu1238

| glottorefname = Giyug

| acceptance = unattested

| speakers =

| date =

| speakers2 = 2 (1981){{Ethnologue16|giy}}

| altname = Kiyuk

}}

Giyug is an extinct and unattested Australian Aboriginal language. It may (or may not) have been close to Wagaydy—perhaps a dialect—but is otherwise unknown. According to Ian Green, it went extinct before the 1920s.

References

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Category:Daly languages

Category:Unattested languages of Australia

{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}

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