Kanyara languages

Kanyara
Kanyara
Geographic; distribution	Western Australia
Linguistic classification	Pama–Nyungan Kanyara–Mantharta Kanyara; ;
Language codes
Glottolog	kany1246
	Kanyara languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan).

The Kanyara languages are a pair of closely related languages in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia.

According to Dixon (2002) languages classified as members of the Kanyara languages group are (with the varieties in parentheses sometimes considered separate languages):^[1]

Burduna (Bayungu/Payungu); and
Thalanyji (Binigura|Pinikura).

However, according to Peter Austin (2008^[2]), Binigura/Pinikura, Thalanyji, Payungu and Purdana (all classified as separate languages in AUSTLANG) "should probably be classified as belonging to the Kanyara subgroup".^[3]

The languages are spoken in the region between the mouths of the Gascoyne River and the Ashburton River, along the coast and extending inland.

The name kanyara comes from the word for "man" in Burdana and Thalanyji. The Kanyara languages form a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. The Kanyara group was first proposed by Austin (1988) based on lexical, morphological and syntactic criteria.

References

^ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxviii.
^ Austin, Peter. 2008. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia. In Morphology and language history, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298
^ W34 Binigura/Pinikura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Austin, Peter (1988). "Classification of Southern Pilbara languages". In Dunn, L.; Geytenbeek, H.; Glasgow, K.; McGregor, W.; Oates, L.; Swartz, S. (eds.). Papers in Australian Linguistics, no. 17 (PDF). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 1–17, PL A-71. doi:10.15144/PL-A71.1. Online edition licensed 2015 CC BY-SA 4.0, with permission of PL

External links

Map showing location of the languages of the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia

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[1] Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxviii.

[2] Austin, Peter. 2008. The classification of Pinikura, Western Australia. In Morphology and language history, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 298

[aiatsispinikura-3] W34 Binigura/Pinikura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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