Nyawaygi

The Nyawaygi, also spelt Nyawigi, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Halifax Bay hinterland in Far North Queensland. Their country lay mainly on the rainforested Seaview Range southwest of the Herbert River, with access to the coast near Ingham and a possible footing on Orpheus Island.

The people were made up of seven clans bearing the -bara suffix and divided into four marriage sections, each required to wed into a prescribed section. Their extinct Pama-Nyungan language had only twelve consonants, the smallest inventory of any Australian language, and seven verb conjugations that preserved a feature of proto-Pama-Nyungan lost in neighbouring tongues.