Pirriya language

Not to be confused with Biri language.
Pirriya
Birria
Native to Australia
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
  • (unclassified,
    possibly Karnic)

    • Pirriya
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xpa
Glottolog pirr1240[1]
AIATSIS[2] L36

Pirriya (Birria, Bidia) is an extinct, unclassified Australian Aboriginal language. Geographically it lay between the Karnic and Maric languages, but had no obvious connection to either; the data is too poor to draw any conclusions on classification.[3] Another language by the same name was Maric.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Pirriya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Pirriya at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Bowern, Claire (2001). "Karnic classification revisited". In J Simpson; et al. Forty years on. Canberra Pacific Linguistics. pp. 245–260. Archived from the original on 2012-05-19.


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