Maningrida, also known as Burarran, is a small family of
Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related:
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Burarra
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Gurr-goni
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Ndjébbana
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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 ...
.
Vocabulary
Capell
Capell or Capel is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Capell
* Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham (1608–1649), English politician
* Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex (1631–1683), English statesman
* Arthur Capell (1902– ...
(1942) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Maningrida languages.
Gunavidji 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