The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of
Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were:
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Matngele
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Kamu
These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the
Macro-Gunwinyguan 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 ...
. All are now extinct.
[Evans, 2003, ''The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia'']
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. ]
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See also
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Daly languages
References
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Daly languages
Language families