Giimbiyu language

Giimbiyu
	Mangerr
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Extinct	(date unknown perhaps a couple speakers remaining in 1981)
Language family	Arnhem Land? Giimbiyu;
Dialects	Mangerr; Erri; Urningangga;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; zme – Mangerr; urc – Urningangg; err – Erre
Glottolog	giim1238
AIATSIS	N220
	Giimbiyu (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

Giimbiyu is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language isolate once spoken by the Giimbiyu people of northern Australia.

The name Giimbiyu is a Gaagudju word for 'of the stoney country'. It was introduced in Harvey (1992) as a cover term for the named dialects,^[3]

In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Giimbiyu languages. However, they are not included in Bowern (2011).^[4]

References[edit]

^ Mangerr at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
Urningangg at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
Erre at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Giimbiyu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
^ ^a ^b Giimbiyu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

McConvell, Patrick and Nicholas Evans. (eds.) 1997. Archaeology and Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Ancient Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press

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