Gooniyandi is an Australian Aboriginal language now spoken by about 200 people, most of whom live in or near Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia.
[4] Gooniyandi is an endangered language as it is not being passed on to children,[4] who instead grow up speaking Kriol.
Unlike the majority of Australian Aboriginal languages, Gooniyandi and Bunuba are non-Pama–Nyungan.
[5] A Gooniyandi alphabet based on the Latin script was adopted by the community in 1984, and subsequently revised in 1990 and again in 1999.
It is a verb-final language, but without a dominant order between the subject and the object.