The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages currently spoken in northern Australia.
The languages are:
Garawan Garawa (Garrwa, north) Waanyi (Wanji, south) Gunindiri (Kurnindirri, southwest) Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.
Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012) The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.
Vocabulary Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items:Capell, Arthur. 1940. The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia. Oceania 10(3): 241-272, 404-433.
{| class="wikitable sortable" class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss ! Garama !! Waneiga |- ! man
! woman
! head
! eye
! nose
! mouth
! tongue
! stomach
! bone
! blood
! kangaroo
! opossum
! crow
! fly
! sun
! moon
! fire
! smoke
! water
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