Warrgamay is an extinct

Australian Aboriginal language 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 ...

of northeast

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. It was closely related to Dyirbal. It is also known as ''Waragamai'', ''Wargamay'', ''Wargamaygan'', ''Biyay'', and ''Warakamai.'' The language region includes the

Herbert River The Herbert River is a river located in Far North Queensland, Australia. The southernmost of Queensland's wet tropics river systems, it was named in 1864 by George Elphinstone Dalrymple explorer, after Robert George Wyndham Herbert, the first ...

area, Ingham, Hawkins Creek, Long Pocket, Herbert Vale, Niagara Vale, Yamanic Creek, Herbert Gorge, Cardwell,

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and the adjacent mainland.

References

Sources

*Dixon, R.M.W. 1981. 'Wargamay'. In ''Handbook of Australian languages'' vol. 2, eds R.M.W. Dixon and B.J. Blake, pp. 1-144 + map. Canberra: ANU Press. {{Pama–Nyungan languages, East Dyirbalic languages Extinct languages of Queensland