| Nyulnyulan | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
northern Australia |
| Linguistic classification: | a primary family of Australian languages. |
| Subdivisions: |
Eastern
Western
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Nyulnyulan (at very left of inset)
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The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia.
The languages form two branches established on the basis of lexical and morphological innovation.[1]
R. M. W. Dixon accepts the validity of the family but incorrectly gives the subgroups as languages; he thus assigns only two languages to the family despite mutual unintelligibility within the Eastern and Western groups.[2]
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