Maningrida, also known as Burarran, is a small family of

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 ...

spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related: * Burarra * Gurr-goni * Ndjébbana * Na'kara Green established the family by reconstructing the

tense–aspect–mood Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated ) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as ) is a group of grammatical categories that are important to understanding spoken or written content, and which are marked in different ways by different la ...

inflections of Proto-Maningrida, and demonstrated common developments that set them apart from other

Arnhem languages The Macro-Gunwinyguan languages, also called Arnhem or Gunwinyguan, are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken across eastern Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Their relationship has been demonstrated through shared morphology i ...

Vocabulary

Capell (1942) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Maningrida languages.

Gunavidji The Gunavidji people, also written Kunibidji and Kunibídji and also known as the Ndjébbana, are an Aboriginal Australian people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Language The Gunavidji speak Ndjébbana, which is one of the Maningrid ...

and Bunarra are from Capell (1940).Capell, Arthur. 1940
The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia
''Oceania'' 10(3): 241-272, 404-433. :

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* * {{Australian Aboriginal languages Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory Language families