Kayardild is a moribund Tangkic language spoken by the Kaiadilt on the South Wellesley Islands, north west Queensland, Australia.

Kayardild is a critically endangered language, considered near-extinct.

The number of speakers of Kayardild significantly reduced since the 1940s as a result of the stolen generations.

Kayardild is the only known spoken language where tense markers appear on both nouns and verbs.

[8] Speakers tend to have a preference for subject–object–verb word order.