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| has gloss | eng: The Yir languages are two languages spoken on the Cape York peninsula of Queensland, Australia. They are very closely related, and are therefore often mentioned as being sister dialects. The first part of both of the names, yir(rk) is from the word yirrq meaning speech or language, and the following is their ethnonym. The name of this language group, yir, is simply an anglicized version. |
| lexicalization | eng: Yir languages |
| lexicalization | eng: Yir language |
| subclass of | e/Western Paman languages |
| instance of | e/Indigenous Australian languages |
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| has subclass | language/yiy |
| has subclass | e/Yirrk-Thangalkl language |
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