Maningrida languages
| Maningrida | |
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| Burarran | |
| Geographic distribution: | Northern Territory |
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| Glottolog: | mani1293[1] |
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Maningrida languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
Maningrida, also known as Burarran, is a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related:
- Burarran proper (Bureran): Guragone, Burarra
- Djeebbana (or Ndjebbana, also called Gunavidji, Gunivugi, Kunibidji, or Gombudj)
- Nakkara
Green established the family by reconstructing the tense–aspect–mood inflections of Proto-Maningrida, and demonstrated common developments that set them apart from other Arnhem languages.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Maningrida". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Rebecca Green, 2003. "Proto-Maningrida within Proto-Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes." In Nicholas Evans, ed. The Non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia.
- ↑ Bowern & Koch, 2004. Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, p 44
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