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Mirndi language branch of Australia

Ngurlun
West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic
distribution
Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classificationMirndi
  • Ngurlun
Subdivisions
Glottologguda1245
  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."

The group was formerly thought——to be, most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly/simply Barkly, but the "connection is no longer thought to be genealogical."

References※

  1. ^ 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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