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Australian Aboriginal language family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Darwin Region languages are a small family of poorly attested Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey[citation needed]. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:[1]
Darwin Region | |
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(proposed) | |
Geographic distribution | from Darwin area to the West Alligator River |
Linguistic classification | Proposed language family. |
Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | None lara1258 (Laragia) limi1242 (Limilngan-Wulna) umbu1235 (Umbugarla) |
![]() Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey). | |
![]() Closeup. From west to east they are: Laragiya, Limilngan, and Umbugarlic. |
Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch.
Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:
However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk, which were extinct by World War II.
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