Mayabic | |
Also Known As: | Mayi |
Familycolor: | Australian |
Glotto: | maya1279 |
Glottorefname: | Mayabic |
Map: | Mayabic languages.png |
Mapcaption: | Mayabic languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan) |
Mayabic, or Mayi, is a small family of extinct Australian Aboriginal languages of Queensland. They were once classified as Paman, but now as a separate branch of Pama–Nyungan.[1]
The languages are:
According to Dixon (2002), Wunumara may have been a dialect of Ngawun or of Mayi-Kulan, which may have been a single language.[2] Bowern (2011 [2012]), however, lists all six of the above as separate languages.