Dalabon language

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Dalabon
Spoken in: Arnhem Land, Australia
Total speakers: 20
Language family: Australian
 Gunwinyguan
  Dalabon
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ngk

Dalabon is an endangered Gunwinyguan language spoken by some 20 speakers in Arnhem Land, Australia. Dalabon is also known as Dangbon, Ngalkbon or Buwan.

[edit] References

  • Evans, Nicholas, Dunstan Brown & Greville Corbett. 2001. Dalabon pronominal prefixes and the typology of syncretism: a Network Morphology analysis. Yearbook of Morphology 2000, 187-231.
  • Evans, Nicholas. 2006. Who said polysynthetic languages avoid subordination? Multiple subordination strategies in Dalabon. Australian Journal of Linguistics.


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