The Marrngu languages are a branch of the
Pama–Nyungan language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ''ancestral language'' or ''parental language'', called the proto-language of that family. The term "family" reflects the tree model of language origination in his ...
of
Australia.
There are four members of the family, which all originated in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to ...
.
*
Mangala (Mangarla)
*Marrngu proper
**
Karajarri (Garadjari)
**
Nyangumarta Nyangumarta may refer to:
* Nyangumarta people of Western Australia
* Nyangumarta language
Nyangumarta, also written Njaŋumada, Njangamada, Njanjamarta and other variants, is a language spoken by the Nyangumarta people and other Aboriginal Aus ...
(Njangumarta)
Vocabulary
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Marrngu languages:
[Capell, Arthur. 1940]
The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia
''Oceania'' 10(3): 241-272, 404-433.
:
References
{{Australian Aboriginal languages