Garawan languages

The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.

The languages are:

Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.
 * Garawan
 * Garawa (Garrwa, north)
 * Waanyi (Wanji, south)
 * Gunindiri (Kurnindirri, southwest)

Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011. The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.

Vocabulary
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items:


 * {| class="wikitable sortable" class="wikitable sortable"

! gloss ! Garama !! Waneiga ! man ! woman ! head ! eye ! nose ! mouth ! tongue ! stomach ! bone ! blood ! kangaroo ! opossum ! crow ! fly ! sun ! moon ! fire ! smoke ! water
 * gadu || jäba
 * balŋun || ludju
 * bɛlbid || gada
 * gamal || milba
 * djimu || mulju
 * dädbi || lira
 * djɛman || djälaṉ
 * maːda || miälu
 * munu || gidji
 * gumuluŋ || djugän
 * ŋalmuŋgu || maɭu
 * jaːɭ || djaŋana
 * waːg || djäŋilga
 * moːl || ŋurin
 * ŋuŋa || wanda
 * mɛrg || girindji
 * ḏuŋgu || waɽu
 * wanag || gundjuru
 * goɽa || gabi
 * }