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Gunwinyguan languages map

7 Gunwinyguan languages are on the map, most of them in Australia. It divides into 3 main branches, the largest being Eastern Gunwinyguan (3 languages). The best-known members include Bininj Kun-Wok and Anindilyakwa. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

Atlantic-Congo
Austronesian
Sino-Tibetan
Indo-European
Afro-Asiatic
Nuclear Trans New Guinea
Otomanguean
Austroasiatic
Tai-Kadai
Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Gunwinyguan family at a glance

7languages
0drawn as areas
7shown as points
3main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Gunwinyguan alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Gunwinyguan languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

Where is Bininj Kun-Wok spoken? (about 1,702 speakers)
Where is Anindilyakwa spoken? (about 1,283 speakers)

Branches of Gunwinyguan

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

Eastern Gunwinyguan (3)
Jala (1)
Western Gunwinyguan (1)

Where Gunwinyguan languages are spoken

Countries with the most Gunwinyguan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

Australia (7)

All 7 Gunwinyguan languages, A to Z

Questions about Gunwinyguan languages

How many Gunwinyguan languages are there?

7 living Gunwinyguan languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 3 main branches, the biggest being Eastern Gunwinyguan (3 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Gunwinyguan languages spoken?

Australia (7) have the most Gunwinyguan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.