Anaiwan
Anewan
New England language
RegionArmidale New South Wales, Australia
EthnicityAnēwan, Himberrong
Extinct(date missing)
Revival2017-present, no native speakers
Dialects
  • Nganyaywana (South Anaiwan)
  • Inuwon–Himberrong
  • ? Enneewin (North Anaiwan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3nyx
Glottologngan1296
AIATSIS[1]D24 Southern Anaiwan, D64 Northern Anaiwan
ELPNganyaywana
Anaiwan (green) among other Pama–Nyungan languages (tan)

Anaiwan (Anēwan) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of New South Wales. Since 2017, there has been a revival program underway to bring the language back.

Classification

Once included in the Kuric languages, Bowern (2011) classifies Nganyaywana as a separate Anēwan (Anaiwan) branch of the Pama–Nyungan languages.[2]

Dialects

Besides Nganyaywana, Anewan may include Enneewin, with which shares about 65% of its vocabulary. Crowley (1976) counts these as distinct languages, whereas Wafer and Lissarrague (2008) consider them to be dialects.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive b ɡ ɟ d
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n
Lateral ʎ l
Trill r
Approximant w j ɻ

Vowels

See also

References

  1. ^ D24 Southern Anaiwan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  2. ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  3. ^ D64 Enneewin at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ^ Crowley, Terry M. (1976). Phonological change in New England. In Dixon, R. M. W. (ed.), Grammatical categories in Australian languages: Canberra: AIAS. pp. 19–50.

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Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales
Pama–Nyungan languages
Australian Aboriginal and Tasmanian languages
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