Talk:Kala Lagaw Ya

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is part of WikiProject Languages (daughter of WikiProject Linguistics), an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, and easy-to-use resource about languages. Suggestions for improving articles on languages should go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages.

	Kala Lagaw Ya is part of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
Stub	This article has been rated as stub-class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as high-importance on the importance scale.
Article Grading: The article has been rated for quality and/or importance but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.
WikiProject Australia To-do: edit  Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Australia: The current Australian collaboration of the fortnight article is Torres Strait Islanders. Requests: Bicentennial Heritage Trail, Daintree Reef, George Adams, Insurance in Australia, Poppy Industries, Sports Rorts affair, State Orchestra of Victoria, Yarmirr v Northern Territory Attention: Aboriginal Protection Act, Australian Payments Clearing Association, Coral Sea Islands, Qantas, Peter Foster, Reg Ansett Expand: Barossa Valley, Coorong, South Australia, List of Australian military memorials, Palm Island, Queensland, Rossiter Bay Juanita Coco Stubs: Australian Racing Museum Australian women's cricket team, Barry McKenzie, Calgardup Bay, Western Australia, Mortein, Prospect Creek, Russian Jack, Yabbying, Younghusband, South Australia Images: Darwin beer-can regatta, Darwin International Airport, Dingo Fence, Driza-Bone, Eucalyptus coolabah, Esky, Four'N Twenty Pie Quality watch: 37 FA-Class Australia articles - 21 GA-Class Australia articles.

Um... if it's a language isolate, surely it can't be part of the Pama-Nyungan language family? thefamouseccles 00:43, 10 Nov 2005 (UTC)

The term isolate can be used to describe a language that is thought to be part of a family, but can't be definitely linked to any specific branch of the family—or forms a branch of its own, where it is the only (surviving) member. --Ptcamn 15:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

But we can no doubt agree this terminology is somewhat confusing? Caesarion 15:58, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

i'd have to say its not confusing in the context. It clearly says "an isolate within the family". That explains what it means pretty clearly. --Krsont 22:09, 2 April 2006 (UTC)