Kuwema (N10) is used as both a language and a people name. Ethnologue lists Tyeraity (N10) and Kuwema as alternative language names. Guwema (N10) is a non-Pama Nyungan language which is closely related to MalakMalak N22 and located in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. Together they are classified as Northern Daly languages (Harvey, 2003:159). See also Glottolog.

The neighbouring languages of Kuwema are MalakMalak N22, Matngele N12 and Kamu N32 (according to sparse information from collaborators). A relationship between MalakMalak and Kuwema is generally accepted (Dorothea Hoffmann, July 2016, p.c.). The language name 'Tyeraity' (N10) (and variations in spelling used by Tryon, Glottolog and others) is actually Dak Jirratj (Hoffmann: Dek Tjerratj), the name of an estate linked to the Guwema language (Mark Harvey, July 2016, p.c.). Hoffmann says that Kuwema people also used the term Dek Kuwema to refer to a place (July 2016, p.c.).

Tryon classified two Daly language families as subgroups of a main Mulluk group: the Mulluk subgroup consisting of Mullukmulluk N22 and Tyeraity (N10) and the Daly subgroup: Matngala N12, Kamor N33 and Yunggor N26. However he also says that this Daly subgroup is more closely aligned with a Wogaity subgroup, which he classifies under a main Brinken-Wogaity group. (1974, 289-290). Harvey presents the case there is not sufficient evidence to support a genetic link between the Northern Daly languages, Guwema (N10) and MalakMalak N22, and the Eastern Daly languages Matngele N12 and Kamu N33 (Eastern Daly group) (2003:159, 172-3).

Nordlinger and Green use the spelling Tyerraty (N10) and include the names Kuwema, Dek Tyerraty and Nguluk Angguwe; they classify Tyerraty (N10) as a non Pama-Nyungan Northern Daly language, along with Malak Malak N22 (viewed November 2020).

Both Harvey and Hoffmann understand the term Nguluk Angguwe is a phrase constructed with the word nguluk 'language'. Hoffmann compares it with nguluk ngawe in MalakMalak 'my language' (July 2016, p.c.).