Ngurlun languages

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Ngurlun
West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic
distribution		 Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classification Mirndi
  • Ngurlun
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottolog guda1245
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  Yirram
  Barkly
  other non-Pama–Nyungan families

The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji. [1]

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly, [2] but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Harvey, Mark David (2008). Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia. PL 593. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. p. 3. ISBN   978-0-85883-588-7.
  2. ↑ Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21: 414–425.
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