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Yuyu language

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Region
  
South Australia

ISO 639-3
  
yxu

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Glottolog
  
uppe1415

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Lower Murray Yuyu

Dialects
  
Ngintait (Inteck) Ngarkat (Ngarrket) Yirawirung (Erawirung) Ngawait

Yuyu (Yirau) is an extinct language or dialect cluster of southern South Australia. Walsh treats Yuyu as a language with Ngawait, Erawirung, Ngintait, and Ngarkat as dialects; Berndt and Berndt (1993) list those as dialects related to Yuyu.

References

Yuyu language Wikipedia