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Yanyuwa

Yanyuwa noun: an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

Noun

Yanyuwa pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.

Proper noun

Yanyuwa

  1. A Yanyulan Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken in the Northern Territory to the south of Arnhem Land.

Forms of Yanyuwa

alternative formAnyula
alternative formYanuwa
alternative formYanyula

Questions about Yanyuwa

What does Yanyuwa mean?
Yanyuwa means an Australian Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria.
What part of speech is Yanyuwa?
Yanyuwa can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Yanyuwa in the dictionary

  1. yanways
  2. Yanworth
  3. yanyuedao
  4. Yanyula
  5. Yanyulan
  6. Yanyuwa
  7. Yanzi
  8. Yao
  9. Yao graph
  10. Yao graphs
  11. Yao's lemma

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