Ngurlun | |
Also Known As: | West Barkly (reduced) |
Region: | Barkly Tableland, Australia |
Familycolor: | Australian |
Fam1: | Mirndi |
Glotto: | guda1245 |
Glottorefname: | Ngurlun |
Child1: | Ngarnka † |
Child2: | Wambaya |
Map: | Mindi_languages.png |
The Ngurlun 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 four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji.[1]
The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly,[2] but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.[1]