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Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages

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Geographic distribution
  
Southwestern Australia

Glottolog
  
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Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages

Linguistic classification
  
Pama–Nyungan Southwest Pama–Nyungan

Subdivisions
  
Kanyara Mantharta Nyungic

The Southwest Pama–Nyungan or Nyungic language group is the most diverse and widespread, though hypothetical, subfamily of the Pama–Nyungan language family of Australia. It contains about fifty distinct languages.

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Internal classification

The Kanyara and Mantharta languages appear to be the most divergent of the Southwest languages. The others are sometimes collected under the name Nyungic.

  • Kanyara
  • Mantharta
  • Nyungic
  • Ngayarda
  • Kartu
  • Nyungar
  • Mangarla
  • Mirning (Mirniny)
  • Wati (Western Desert language)
  • Marrngu
  • Ngarrka–Ngumpin
  • Yura

    • Validity

    The proposal has been largely abandoned. Bowern (2011) restricts "Southwest Pama–Nyungan" to Nyungar plus Kalaaku. (See Nyungic languages.) However - Tindale (1940) recorded a 'Rite of Circumcision' border arcing between the Thura-Yura languages & the Tangkic languages.

    References

    Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages Wikipedia
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