Geographic
distribution Daly River | Linguistic classification unclassified | |
Subdivisions Wadjiginy (Wagaydy)
Kandjerramalh (Pungupungu) Glottolog None
wadj1254 (covered by Wadjiginy) | ||
Wagaydyic is a pair of closely related but otherwise unclassified Australian Aboriginal languages, Wadjiginy (Wagaydy) and Kandjerramalh (Pungupungu).
Tryon (1987) notes that the two languages are 80% cognate, but there are serious grammatical differences that prevent them from being considered dialects of a single language.
The unattested Giyug may have been related. The Wagaydyic languages have previously been classified with Malak-Malak into a Northern Daly family, but similarities appear to be due to lexical and morphological borrowing from Malak-Malak, at least in Wadjiginy.
References
Wagaydyic languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA