The Darwin Region languages are a small
family
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of poorly attested
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, 2011
corrected
February 6, 2012)
*
Laragiya (nearly extinct)
*Limilngan:
**
Limilngan †
**
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 WWII.
References
Proposed language families
Non-Pama-Nyungan languages
Extinct languages of the Northern Territory
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