Ngan'gityemerri language
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| Ngan’gityemerri | ||
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| Spoken in: | Daly River Mission, Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 275 (1988) | |
| Language family: | Daly Southern Ngan’gityemerri |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | nam | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Ngan’gityemerri (also Ngan.gi-tjemerri, Nangikurrunggurr) is an Australian Aboriginal language.
[edit] Classification
Ngan’gityemerri is closely related to Murrinh-patha. Together they form a branch of the Daly languages, called Murrinh-Patha by Ethnologue (2005) and the Southern Daly group by Dixon (2002).
[edit] References
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Reid, N. J. (1990). Ngan’gityemerri: a language of the Daly River region, Northern Territory of Australia, Ph.D. thesis, Australian National University.
- Reid, N. J. (1997). “Class and classifier in Ngan’gityemerri”, Harvey and Reid: Nominal classification in Aboriginal Australia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 165–228.
- Reid, N. J. (1997). “Complex verb collocations in Ngan’gityemerri: a non-derivational strategy for encoding valency alternations”, R. M. W. Dixon and A. Y. Aikhenvald: Changing valency: case studies in transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 333–359.
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