The Western Daly languages are a small family of
Australian aboriginal languages that share common grammatical forms. They are:
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Maranunggu
The Marranunggu are an Aboriginal Australian people and language group, of the Northern Territory.
Language
Marranunggu is classified as one of the dialects of the Marranji group of the Western Daly languages, together with Menhthe and Emmi.
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(Emmi; Menhthe dialect)
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Marrithiyel (Bringen: Marri Ammu, Marritjevin, Marridan, Marramanindjdji dialects)
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Marri Ngarr
The Maringar are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory.
Country
In Norman Tindale's estimate the Maringar had about midway along the Moyle River and its contiguous swamplands and various tributaries.
Social organisation
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(Magati-ge dialect)
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary items are from Tryon (1968).
[Tryon, Darrell T. "The Daly River Languages: A Survey". In Aguas, E.F. and Tryon, D. editors, ''Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 3''. A-14:21-49. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1968. ]
See also
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Daly languages
The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Classification
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References
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Daly languages
Language families