Eastern Daly languages

Eastern Daly
Geographic
distribution
Daly River region, northern Australia
Linguistic classification

Australian language

  • Eastern Daly
Subdivisions
Glottolog east2374[1]

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The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)


  Eastern Daly

The Eastern Daly languages are a small family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They are:

These languages have elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Arnhem languages.[2]

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eastern Daly". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Evans, 2003, The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia


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