Yanyuwa language

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Yanyuwa
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Yanyuwa, Wadiri
Native speakers	47 (2021 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Ngarna Yanyuwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jao
Glottolog	yany1243
AIATSIS[2]	N153
ELP	Yanyuwa
Yanyuwa is the patch of yellow on the northern coast, between the orange and the green.
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Yanyuwa ([jaṉuwa]) is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola (Yanyuwa: Burrulula) in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Yanyuwa, like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, is a highly agglutinative language with ergative-absolutive alignment, whose grammar is pervaded by a set of 16 noun classes whose agreements are complicated and numerous.

Yanyuwa is a critically endangered language. The anthropologist John Bradley has worked with the Yanyuwa people for three decades and is also a speaker of Yanyuwa. He has produced a large dictionary and grammar of the language,^[3] along with a cultural atlas in collaboration with a core group of senior men and women.