Darwin Region languages
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| Darwin Region | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Darwin, Australia |
| Linguistic classification: | One of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog: | None lara1258 (Laragia)[1] limi1242 (Limilngan)[2] umbu1259 (Umbugarlic)[3] |
Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey).
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.png) 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.
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- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
