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Guwa
Guwa
Goa
Native to	Australia
Region	"Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland
Ethnicity	Koa people
Extinct	(date missing)Category:Language articles with unknown extinction date
Language family	Pama–Nyungan (unclassified, possibly Maric) Guwa–Yanda Guwa; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xgw
Glottolog	guwa1242
AIATSIS	G9.1
ELP	Guwa

Guwa, also spelt Goa, Koa, and other variants, is an extinct and nearly unattested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland spoken by the Koa people. It was apparently close to Yanda.^[3]

Dialects

Guwa had a western and eastern dialect differentiation.^[4]

Based on the available data and other languages of the region, the following phoneme inventory can be determined.

Guwa has a three-vowel system /i, a, u/.^[4]

↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
1 2 G9.1 Guwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
1 2 Blake, Barry J.; Breen, Gavan (1990). "Guwa". Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 108–144.