Mayali dialect

{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Infobox language | name =Mayali | altname =Manyallaluk Mayali | nativename = | states = Australia | region = Northern Territory | ethnicity=Bininj | speakers = 71 | date = 2021 census | ref = <ref>{{cite web|title=SBS Australian Census Explorer|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/creative/census-explorer|access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref> | familycolor = Australian | fam1 = Arnhem | fam2 = Gunwinyguan | fam3 = Gunwinggic | fam4 = Bininj Kunwok | isoexception = dialect | aiatsis = N44 | aiatsisname = Mayali | glotto = naia1238 | glottorefname = Manyallaluk Mayali }} '''Mayali''' or '''Manyallaluk Mayali''' is a dialect of Bininj Kunwok, an Australian Aboriginal language.<ref name="dialects">{{cite web |title=Dialects |url=https://bininjkunwok.org.au/information/dialects/ |website=Bininj Kunwok: Kunwok dja mankarre kadberre—our language, our culture |publisher=Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre |access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref> The Aboriginal people who speak Mayali are the Bininj people, who live primarily in western Arnhem Land. Mayali is spoken primarily in south-west Arnhem Land, particularly around Pine Creek, Katherine and Manyallaluk.<ref name="dialects" /> Occasionally the term "Mayali" is used to refer to all Bininj Kunwok dialects collectively, however this is not generally accepted usage.<ref name="dialects" /><ref name=austlang>{{cite web | title=N186: BININJ GUN-WOK / BININJ KUNWOK | website=AIATSIS Collection: AUSTLANG | date=26 July 2019 | url=https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/N186 | access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref> Speakers of the Kundjeyhmi dialect of Bininj Kunwok often regard Mayali as similar to, or even the same as, Kundjeyhmi.<ref name="dialects" />

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== Further reading == * {{Cite book |url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/53188 |title=Bininj Gun-wok: a pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and Kune |series=Pacific Linguistics 541 |last=Evans |first=Nicholas |date=2003 |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |location=Canberra |hdl=1885/53188 |isbn=978-0-85883-530-6 |hdl-access=free }}, 2 volumes

==External links== *[https://www.njamed.com/ Bininj Kunwok online dictionary] *{{cite web | title=Kured [home page]| website=Bininj Kunwok |publisher=Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre| url=https://bininjkunwok.org.au/}} *[https://kunwok.org/ Kunwok]

Category:Gunwinyguan languages Category:Arnhem Land Category:Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory