Yarli language

{{Short description|Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{For|the South Australian lake known as Yarli|Lake Albert (disambiguation){{!}}Lake Albert}}

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{{Infobox language

| name = Yarli

| region = Northwestern New South Wales

| ethnicity = Malyangapa, Yardliyawara, Wadikali, Karenggapa

| speakers = possibly extinct; 2 speakers in 1987

| date = 2004

| ref = e18

| speakers2 = Malyangapa extinct 1976 with the death of Laurie Quayle
Wadikali extinct before that

| familycolor = Australian

| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan

| lc1 = yxl

| ld1 = Yardliyawarra

| lc2 = yga

| ld2 = Malyangapa

| lc3 = wdk

| ld3 = Wadikali (Malyangapa dialect)

| script = Latin

| dia1 = Malyangapa

| dia2 = Yardliyawarra

| aiatsis = L8

| aiatsisname = Malyangapa

| aiatsis2 = L7

| aiatsisname2 = Yardliyawara

| glotto = yarl1236

| glottorefname = Yarli

| map = Yardli languages.png

| mapcaption = Yardli languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan)

}}

Yarli (Yardli) was a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northwestern New South Wales and into Northeastern South Australia individually Malyangapa (Maljangapa), Yardliyawara, and Wadikali (Wardikali, Wadigali). Bowern (2002) notes Karenggapa as part of the area, but there is little data.

Tindale (1940) groups Wanjiwalku & Karenggapa together with Wadikali & Maljangapa as the only languages in NSW that are behind the 'Rite of Circumcision' border - which suggests Wanjiwalku to also be part of the Yarli area.