Kalaamaya language

Kalaamaya
Karlamay
Native to Australia
Region Western Australia
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan

  • Nyungic

    • Kalamaya–Natingero
      • Kalaamaya
Dialects
  • ?Nyaki Nyaki
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lkm
Glottolog kala1401[1]
AIATSIS[2] A4 Kalaamaya, A1 Nyaki Nyaki

Kalaamaya, also spelled Karlamay, is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It is poorly attested, but appears to have been a close relative of the Nyungar languages.[3]

A variety called Nyaki Nyaki (Njakinjaki) has been variously said to be a dialect of Nyungar or of Kalaamaya.[4] Natingero (see) has also been listed as a dialect, but it is only 40% lexically similar.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kalaamaya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Kalaamaya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  3. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  4. ↑


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