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Giimbiyu is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language isolate of northern Australia. The name Giimbiyu is a Gaagudju word for ‘of the stoney country’. It was introduced in Harvey (1992) as a cover term for the named dialectsMangerr (Mengerrdji)Urningangga (Wuningak) and Erri (Arri)In 1997 Nicholas Evans proposed an Arnhem Land family that includes the Giimbiyu languages. However they are not included in Bowern (2011).

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family
Arnhem Land languages
spoken in
Northern Territory

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