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Darwin Region Languages
The Darwin Region languages are a language family, family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011correctedFebruary 6, 2012) *Darwin Region **Laragiya language, Laragiya (nearly extinct) **Limilngan ***Limilngan language, Limilngan ***Wulna language, Wulna **Umbugarlic ***Umbugarla language, Umbugarla ***Ngurmbur language, Ngurmbur? ***Bugurnidja language, Bugurnidja? Ngurmbur language, Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja language, Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla language, Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch. Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur: :Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur. However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Australia
Darwin (Laragiya language, Larrakia: ') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes it a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin and extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs extend to Lee Point, Northern Territory, Lee Point in the north and to Berrimah, Northern Territory, Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Alligator River
Alligator Rivers is the name of an area in an Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia, containing three rivers, the East, West, and South Alligator Rivers. It is regarded as one of the richest biological regions in Australia, with part of the region in the Kakadu National Park. It is an Important Bird Area (IBA), lying to the east of the Adelaide and Mary River Floodplains IBA. It also contains mineral deposits, especially uranium, and the Ranger Uranium Mine is located there. The area is also rich in Australian Aboriginal art, with 1500 sites. The Kakadu National Park is one of the few World Heritage sites on the list because of both its natural and human heritage values. They were explored by Lieutenant Phillip Parker King in 1820, who named them in the mistaken belief that the crocodiles in the estuaries were alligators. Rivers The East Alligator River is about long. After rising in the northern part of the Arnhem Land Plateau, it flows with tributary s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics analogous to a family tree, or to phylogenetic trees of taxa used in evolutionary taxonomy. Linguists thus describe the ''daughter languages'' within a language family as being ''genetically related''. The divergence of a proto-language into daughter languages typically occurs through geographical separation, with different regional dialects of the proto-language undergoing different language changes and thus becoming distinct languages over time. One well-known example of a language family is the Romance languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and many others, all of which are descended from Vulgar Latin.Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.)''Ethnologue: Languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limilngan Language
Limilngan, also known as Limil and Manidja (also spelt Manitja), is an extinct Aboriginal Australian language of the Top End of Australia. Names and ownership The language as well as its speakers are known by three names: Limilngan, Limil and Manidja / Manitja, the latter being an exonym. Buneidja is regarded as the same language, and the people are sometimes referred to by this name. Traditional lands Limilngan was spoken in the Darwin hinterland, in the Mary River (Northern Territory) The Mary River flows in the Northern Territory of Australia and is a site of the Mary River National Park. Description The river is approximately long and rises about east of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, Pine Creek. The catchment area is ... area of Kakadu. Phonology The Limilngan language uses the three vowel system; /a/, /i/, /u/. The three sounds can result in allophones as �, æ � and � Vocabulary Limilngan plant and animal names: Animals : Plants : Footnotes Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laragiya Language
The Laragiya language, also spelt Larrakia (deriving from Larrakia people), and also known as Gulumirrgin, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by just six people near the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin in northern Australia as of 1983. Only 14 people claimed to know the Laragiya language in 2016. Laragiya was once considered a language isolate, but Mark Harvey has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages. Linguist Arthur Capell wrote, :"Even in 1950 there were no children speaking it, and most of the older people who spoke it in 1952 (when the bulk of these notes was gathered) were found on the Delissaville Reserve (now Belyuen, Northern Territory, Belyuen ), across the harbour from Darwin. By 1968, reports of only two speakers could be gained, and these far away from Darwin. In former times, however, the tribe was fairly large, and its territory extended to the Coolalinga, where it joined that of a tribe called "Woolna" by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbugarla Language
Umbugarla or Mbukarla is a possible Australian language isolate once spoken by three people in Arnhem Land, northern Australia as of 1981, and is now extinct. Classification Umbugarla was once considered a language isolate (together with Ngurmbur as a dialect), but Mark Harvey has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages The Darwin Region languages are a language family, family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:Bowern, Claire. 2011.How Ma .... Phonology Consonants * /ɡ/ can be heard as either stops or when in word-final or word-medial position, and as a fricative when in intervocalic position. * /ɽ/ can also be heard as an alveolar tap when in intervocalic position. Vowels * Vowels can be lengthened when in open syllables or in word-final position. References External links Umbugarla Swadesh listat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aboriginal Languages
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intelligible varieties) up to possibly 363. The Indigenous languages of Australia comprise numerous language family, language families and language isolate, isolates, perhaps as many as 13, spoken by the Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous peoples of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. The relationships between the language families are not clear at present although there are proposals to link some into larger groupings. Despite this uncertainty, the Indigenous Australian languages are collectively covered by the technical term "Australian languages", or the "Australian family". The term can include both Tasmanian languages and the Kalaw Lagaw Ya, Western Torres Strait language, but the Genetic relationship (linguistics), genetic relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Isolate
A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. Basque in Europe, Ainu and Burushaski in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America, and Tiwi in Oceania are all examples of such languages. The exact number of language isolates is yet unknown due to insufficient data on several languages. One explanation for the existence of language isolates is that they might be the last remaining member of a larger language family. Such languages might have had relatives in the past that have since disappeared without being documented, leaving them an orphaned language. One example is the Ket language spoken in central Siberia, which belongs to the wider Yeniseian language family; had it been discovered in recent times independently from its now extinct relatives, such as Yugh and Kott, it would have been classified as an isolate. Another explanation for language isolates is that they aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wulna Language
Wulna or Wuna is an extinct Indigenous language of Australia. It was a non-Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the Adelaide River region of the Northern Territory. It is poorly attested and only tentatively classified as being related to Limilngan. It had one speaker left in 1981, Jack Wandi, who was recorded by Gavan Breen in 1980-1981. Resources The State Library of New South Wales has an original copy oVocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territoryby John W. O. Bennett (1869). The book documents the vocabulary and pronunciation of Wulna in general, in addition to place names from the Adelaide River region of Northern Territory. The original copy has been annotated by Paul Foelsche, the first police inspector of Northern Territory, who has added his own words to the vocabulary list, and his own corrections on pronunciation. External links * AUSTLANG The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngurmbur Language
Ngomburr, also spelt Ngumbur, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It has sometimes been assumed to be a dialect of Umbugarla, but it is poorly attested; the only evidence to go on is that neighbouring peoples reported that it was similar to Umbugarla, as well as some sentences and vocabulary. It was spoken to the west of the South Alligator River, between the Ga'baarlgu and the South Alligator River, in Kakadu, Northern Territory. There were two speakers recorded in 1975, and one in 1981, but none since then, on the AUSTLANG The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, ... database. The last speaker, Butcher Knight, died sometime between 1987 and 2001. References Extinct languages of the Northern Territory Darwin Region languages Arnhem Land {{Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bugurnidja Language
Bugurnidja is an Australian Aboriginal language of Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Almost nothing is known of it; apparently Nicholas Evans Nicholas Benbow Evans (26 July 1950 – 9 August 2022) was a British journalist, screenwriter, television and film producer and novelist. He was best known for his 1995 debut novel, ''The Horse Whisperer (novel), The Horse Whisperer''. It has s ... collected some data from a single speaker, and this showed similarities to Ngomburr. References Darwin Region languages Extinct languages of the Northern Territory {{Ia-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
