Ngurlun languages explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harvey, Mark David . Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia . Pacific Linguistics . 2008 . 978-0-85883-588-7 . PL 593 . Canberra . 3 . en.
  2. Green . Ian . Ian Green . 1995 . The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia . Berkeley Linguistics Society . 21 . 414–425.