Ngurlun languages

Ngurlun
West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic
distribution:		 Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classification:

Mirndi

  • Ngurlun
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: guda1245[1]

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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.[2]

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly,[3] but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gudanji–Binbinga–Wambaya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. 1 2 Harvey, Mark (2008). Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia. PL 593. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-85883-588-7.
  3. ↑ Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21: 414–425. External link in |journal= (help)


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