West Barkly languages

West Barkly
Geographic
distribution:		 Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classification:

Mirndi

  • West Barkly
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: west2433[1]

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  Yirram
  Barkly
  other non-Pama–Nyungan families

The West Barkly or simply Barkly 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 five languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Jingulu, Wambaya, and often Ngarnka, Binbinka, and Gurdanji.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "West Barkly". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. ↑ Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society 21: 414–425.