Giimbiyu language

Giimbiyu
Giimbiyu
Mangerr
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Extinct	1980s–1990s
Language family	Arnhem Land? Giimbiyu;
Dialects	Mangerr; Erri; Urningangga;
Writing system	Latin (Australian Aboriginal)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; zme – Mangerr; urc – Urningangg; err – Erre
Glottolog	giim1238
AIATSIS	N220
ELP	Urningangga
	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,^[2]

In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Giimbiyu languages. However, they are not included in Bowern (2011).^[3]

^ Mangerr at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Urningangg at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Erre at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ ^a ^b N220 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)