The Darwin Region languages are a

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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 intellig ...

of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two

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s:Bowern, Claire. 2011.
How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?
, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011
corrected
February 6, 2012) *Darwin Region ** Laragiya (nearly extinct) **Limilngan ***

Limilngan The Limilngan, also known by the exonym Minitja and (based on a language dialect) Buneidja, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Earlier ethnologists such as Norman Tindale referred to the group as Puneitja or variants o ...

*** Wulna **Umbugarlic *** Umbugarla *** Ngurmbur? *** Bugurnidja? Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with 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, which were extinct by

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References

Proposed language families Non-Pama-Nyungan languages Extinct languages of the Northern Territory {{Ia-lang-stub