Nyawaygi language
The Nyawaygi language, also spelt Nyawaygi, Nywaigi, Geugagi, Njawigi, Nyawigi or Nawagi, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language that was spoken by the Nyawaygi people in North Queensland, on the east coast of Australia. The Nyawaygi language region includes the landscape within the Hinchinbrook Regional Council, Halifax Bay, and Rollingstone.

Nyawaygi had the smallest number of consonants, 12, of any Australian language. It had 7 conjugations, 3 open and 4 closed, the latter including monosyllabic roots, and, in this regard, conserved a feature of proto-Pama–Nyungan lost from contiguous languages.

Phonology

Consonants 

 Unlike most Australian languages,  occurs as an allophone of /r/ when after a consonant. /r/ is heard as  in all other environments.
 Palatal sounds /ɟ, ɲ/ can occasionally be heard as dental sounds .
 /r/ can also occasionally be heard as a tap .
 /ɻ/ can be heard as a flap  in word-final positions.

Vowels

Vocabulary 
Some words from the Nyawaygi language, as spelt and written by Nyawaygi authors include:

Notes

External links 

 Nywaigi Language Recordings, State Library of Queensland

Dyirbalic languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
Languages extinct in the 2000s
2009 disestablishments in Australia