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Pirriya language

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Pirriya
Birria
Native toAustralia
EthnicityBidia
Extinct(date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Karnic)
    • Pirriya
Language codes
ISO 639-3xpa
Glottologpirr1240
AIATSIS[1]L36
ELPPirriya

Pirriya (Birria, Bidia) is an extinct, unclassified Australian Aboriginal language. Geographically it lay between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.[2] Another language by the same name was Maric.

References

  1. ^ L36 Pirriya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. (eds.). Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 20 May 2012.