Wagaydyic languages


The Wagaydyic languages are a pair of closely related but otherwise unclassified Australian Aboriginal languages: the moribund Wadjiginy and the extinct Kandjerramalh.
Tryon notes that the two languages are 79% cognate based on a 200-item wordlist, but there are serious grammatical differences that prevent them from being considered dialects of a single language.
The unattested Giyug may have been a dialect of Wadjiginy or otherwise related.
The Wagaydyic languages have previously been classified with Malak-Malak into a Northern Daly family, but similarities appear to be due to lexical and morphological borrowing from Malak-Malak, at least in Wadjiginy.