Yotayotic languages

{{Short description|Pair of Pama–Nyungan languages of southeastern Australia}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Yotayotic

|region=Australia

|familycolor=Australian

|fam1=Pama–Nyungan

|fam2=Southeastern

|fam3=Victorian

|fam4=Eastern Victoria

|child1=Yotayota

|child2=Yabula-Yabula

|glotto=none

|glotto2=yort1237

|glottoname2=covered by Yotayota

|glottorefname2=Yorta Torta

|map=Yotayotic languages.png

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

}}

The Yotayotic languages are a pair of languages of the Pama–Nyungan family, Yotayota and Yabula-Yabula.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) Dixon (2002) classified them as two separate families, but per Bowe & Morey (1999)Heather Bowe and Stephen Morey. 1999. The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) Language of the Murray Goulborn including Yabula Yabula. (Pacific Linguistics: Series C, 154.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. Glottolog considers them to be dialects of a single language.

References

Dixon, R. M. W. 2002. Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press