Gooniyandi

Name
The name form Gooniyandi is now preferred because this is how the language name is written in the spelling used by the speakers (McGregor 1990:18).

Alternative names are
 * Guniyan, Gunian
 * Kuniyanti, Guniyandi, Guniandi

Location
Gooniyandi is spoken near or in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.

Speakers
In the 1980s, there were about 100 speakers (McGregor 1990:23). The language is not being passed on to children, and is hardly used by the older speakers, who prefer Fitzroy Crossing Creole (Park 2006).

Classification

 * Australian
 * Bunuban

Works on the language

 * McGregor, William. 1990. A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
 * McGregor, William. 1992b. Clause Types in Gooniyandi. Language Sciences 14: 355-384.
 * McGregor, William. 1999. Gooniyandi. In Nick Thieberger and William McGregor, eds., Macquarie Aboriginal Words: A Dictionary of Words from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages, pp. 193-213. New South Wales, Australia: The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.