ISO 639-3 rxd AIATSIS A69 | Glottolog ngar1288 | |
Region Northern Territory and Western Australia Native speakers 10 (2005) to 14 (2006 census) Language family Pama–Nyungan
Ngumbin?
Wati?
Ngardi | ||
Ngardi (Ngarti) or Ngardilj is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.
Classication
Capell (1962) considered Ngardi, Warlpiri, and Warlmanpa to be dialects of a single language. R. M. W. Dixon (2002) grouped Ngardi together with Warlpiri and Warlmanpa in the Yapa group, but admitted that this was based on limited data. McConvell and Laughren (2004) showed that it was in Ngumbin, a closely related group, and this was followed in Honeyman (2005). However, Bowern (2011) listed it as a more distant Wati language.
References
Ngardi language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA