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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