Concept information
Preferred term
gydKayardild
Type
-
language
Definition
- Kayardild is a Tangkic language spoken on Bentinck Island and surrounding islands such as Sweers Island, north west Queensland, Australia, with fewer than ten fluent speakers remaining. Other members of the family include Lardil, Yukulta (Ganggalida) and Yangkaal. It is famous for its many unusual case phenomena, including case stacking of up to four levels, the use of clause-level case to signal interclausal relations and pragmatic factors, and another set of verbal case endings which convert their hosts from nouns into verbs morphologically.
Entry terms
- Kayardild language
ISO 639-3 code
- gyd
nearly same as
In other languages
-
Lenga kayardild
Piedmontese
-
Swedish
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gyd
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