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Darwin Region languages

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Geographic distribution:
  
Darwin, Australia

Darwin Region languages

Linguistic classification:
  
One of the world's primary language families

Subdivisions:
  
Laragiya Limilngan Umbugarla

Glottolog:
  
None lara1258  (Laragia) limi1242  (Limilngan) umbu1259  (Umbugarlic)

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:

  • 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.

    References

    Darwin Region languages Wikipedia
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