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Gavan Breen (22 January 1935 – 5 October 2023) AO, also known as J. G. Breen, was an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian...

Yindjilandji (Indjilandji) may have been a separate language. The linguist Gavan Breen recorded two dialects of the language, an Eastern and a Western variety...

Arandic variety subsumed under the entry Andegerebinha [adg] (Breen, Gavan 2001, Breen, J. Gavan 1971)". In Western Arrernte lands the preferred spelling for...

according to Gavan Breen, which has two dialects, Wangka-Yutjurru and Wangkamanha. Other linguists suggest further dialects. Tharlimanha (Breen 2007) Wanggamala...

classified as dormant. A study of its sound system was published in 1977 by Gavan Breen, which he revisited in 2001, saying that the phonology is now regarded...

gov.au. Retrieved 2024-03-09. Breen, Gavan (8 March 2024). "Language collections deposited at AIATSIS by J Gavan Breen 1967-1979" (PDF). AIATSIS. PARADISEC...

Edward G. Breen (1908-1991), American politician Gary Breen (born 1973), Irish footballer Gavan Breen (1935–2023), Australian linguist George Breen (1935–2019)...

source. Breen assigns it to Wiri (E57). Gabulbarra is name for a people of Central Queensland, but little is known about their language. Gavan Breen thinks...

is best considered an isolate branch within the Pama–Nyungan family. Gavan Breen provisionally includes Minkabari and the Ngura dialect Pitjara/Bidjara/Bitharra...

Francesca (1983). "The Mayi Languages of the Queensland Gulf Country . Gavan Breen". American Anthropologist. 85 (3): 741. doi:10.1525/aa.1983.85.3.02a00740...

group of Karnic languages The best known version is that recorded by Gavan Breen from informants in Innamincka. The Yandruwandha ranged over an estimated...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Blake, Barry J.; Breen, Gavan (1990). Guwa. In Gavan Breen (ed.), Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal...

Arrernte language, the language becoming extinct when he died in 2011. Gavan Breen, an Australian linguist, was able to compile a dictionary of Lower Arrernte...

Australian languages. Of particular note are: Barry Blake Claire Bowern Gavan Breen Arthur Capell R. M. W. Dixon Kenneth Hale Margaret Heffernan Luise Hercus...

2023. Breen, Gavan (1971). Aboriginal languages of Western Queensland. (Monash University) 5: 1–88. Linguistic Communications. pp. 1–88. Breen, Gavan (1990)...

Catherine Koch (1989), Daniel Brammall (1991), Margaret Carew (1993), and Gavan Breen (2004). Beyond the subgroup, relations with other branches of Pama-Nyungan...

Lynette Oates (1975) thinks that it could be related to Gugadji, but Gavan Breen says that it belongs to the Southern Paman group and is not related to...

published at the Survey Department, Brisbane, Brisbane : Survey Dept., 1900. Breen, Gavan (1990). Salvage Studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal Languages. Research...

but it is now extinct. The last speaker was Brownie Doolan, from whom Gavan Breen managed to write up a dictionary of roughly 1000 words. According to...

the present-day Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia. Gavan Breen (1981) thought that the Marrago might have been a sub-group of the Mayi...