Yarli (Yardli) was a dialect cluster of

Australian Aboriginal languages The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

spoken in northwestern

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

and into Northeastern

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individually

Malyangapa The Malyangaapa are an Indigenous Australian Tribe of people who live in the far western areas of the state of New South Wales. Language The Malyangapa spoke a dialect of the Yarli language. Country Malyangaapa country extends over some with i ...

(Maljangapa),

Yardliyawara The Yardliyawara otherwise known as the ''Jadliaura'' were an indigenous Australian people of South Australia. Language The Yardliyawara language is classified as one of the Karnic languages, though this has been disputed, and is now classified a ...

, and

Wadikali Yarli (Yardli) was a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northwestern New South Wales and into Northeastern South Australia individually Malyangapa (Maljangapa), Yardliyawara, and Wadikali (Wardikali, Wadigali). Bowe ...

(Wardikali, Wadigali). Bowern (2002) notes

Karenggapa The Karenggapa are an Aboriginal Australian people of New South Wales. Country Norman Tindale estimated the extent of their tribal lands at , reaching from Mount Bygrave in northwestern New South Wales to Woodbum Lake in Queensland. They too ...

as part of the area, but there is little data. Tindale (1940) groups Wanjiwalku & Karenggapa together with Wadikali & Maljangapa as the only languages in NSW that are behind the 'Rite of Circumcision' border - which suggests Wanjiwalku to also be part of the Yarli area.

Classification

The three varieties are very close. Hercus & Austin (2004) classify them as the Yarli branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. Dixon (2002) regards the three as

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of Linguistics, linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety (linguisti ...

s of a single language. Bowern (2002) excludes them from the

Karnic languages The Karnic languages are a group of languages of the Pama–Nyungan family. According to Dixon (2002), these are three separate families, but Bowern (2001) establishes regular paradigmatic connections among many of the languages, demonstrating ...

, where they had sometimes been classified.

References

* * Pama–Nyungan languages Extinct languages of New South Wales {{ia-lang-stub