Darwin Region languages
| Darwin Region | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Darwin, Australia |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions: |
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| Glottolog: |
None lara1258 (Laragia)[1] limi1242 (Limilngan)[2] umbu1259 (Umbugarlic)[3] |
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Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey). | |
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Closeup. From west to east they are: Laragiya, Limilngan, and Umbugarlic. | |
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The Darwin Region languages are a small family of poorly attested Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by Mark Harvey. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:[4]
- Laragiya (nearly extinct)
- Limilngan: Limilngan (†), Wulna (nearly extinct)
- Umbugarlic: Umbugarla (†), Ngurmbur (†), ?Bugurnidja
Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:
- Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur.
However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk, which were extinct by WWII.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Laragia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Limilngan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Umbugarlic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
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