Pirriya language
Appearance
Pirriya | |
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Birria | |
Native to | Australia |
Ethnicity | Bidia |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xpa |
Glottolog | pirr1240 |
AIATSIS[1] | L36 |
ELP | Pirriya |
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
- ^ L36 Pirriya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ 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.
External links
- Bibliography of Pirriya people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies