Mantharta is a partly extinct dialect cluster spoken in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. There were four varieties, which were distinct...
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The Kanyara and Mantharta languages form a western branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia...
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Pilbara languages Ngayarda languages Kanyara-Mantharta languages Kartu–Nhanda languages Mirning languages Nyunga languages Yinggarda language According...
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Jiwarli dialect (redirect from Tjiwarli language)
Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is a variety of the Mantharta language of the large Pama–Nyungan...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Guugu Yimithirr people of Far North Queensland. It belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family. Most...
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Tenma people (section Language)
region of Western Australia. They spoke the Tenma language. The Thiin spoke one of four dialects of Mantharta, the other members of the dialect continuum being...
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2021. Austin, Peter (1991). "Double case marking in Kanyara and Mantharta languages, Western Australia" (PDF). La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics...
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Kanyara languages are a pair of closely related languages in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia. According to Dixon, languages classified...
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Deserts of Australia (section Languages and people)
Ngumpin–Yapa languages, Warumungu languages, Ngayarda languages, Kanyara-Mantharta languages and Thura-Yura languages. Most of these languages belong in...
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(Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland. It was the traditional language of the Mbabaram people. Recordings are held...
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about fifty distinct languages. The Kanyara and Mantharta languages appear to be the most divergent of the Southwest languages. The others are sometimes...
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The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi language (Gamilaraay pronunciation: [ɡ̊aˌmilaˈɻaːj]) is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in...
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Suffixaufnahme (section Living languages)
Yalanjic languages, which are a primary branch of Pama-Nyungan) Kanyara-Mantharta languages (a primary branch of Pama-Nyungan) Kanyara languages, e.g. Thalanyji...
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Turrbal is an Aboriginal Australian language of the Turrbal people of the Brisbane area of Queensland. Alternate spellings include Turubul, Turrubal, Turrabul...
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Diyari (/ˈdiːjɑːri/) or Dieri (/ˈdɪəri/) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Diyari people in the far north of South Australia, to the east...
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is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem...
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extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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Noongar (/ˈnʊŋɑːr/), also Nyungar (/ˈnjʊŋɡɑːr/), is an Australian Aboriginal language or dialect continuum, spoken by some members of the Noongar community and...
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Dyirbal /ˈdʒɜːrbəl/ (also Djirubal) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in northeast Queensland by the Dyirbal people. In 2016, the Australian...
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Warrongo (or War(r)ungu) is an Australian Aboriginal language, one of the dozen languages of the Maric branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. It was formerly...
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Ngarigo (Ngarigu) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Ngarigo people of inland far southeast New South Wales...
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Australian Aboriginal language once spoken in Cape York in Queensland. Y34 Aritinngithigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute...
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Lardil, also spelled Leerdil or Leertil, is a moribund language spoken by the Lardil people on Mornington Island (Kunhanha), in the Wellesley Islands of...
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Ngunnawal/Ngunawal and Gundungurra are Australian Aboriginal languages, and the traditional languages of the Ngunnawal and Gandangara. Ngunnawal and Gundungurra...
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Ngadjunmaya, correctly known as Ngadjumaya[citation needed], is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region...
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Yinjibarndi is a Pama–Nyungan language spoken by the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region in north-western Australia. Yinjibarndi is mutually intelligible...
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"Waray language" redirects here. For the Austronesian language with the same name, see Waray language. Warray (Waray) was an Australian language spoken...
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Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia. It has recently been classified as the closest relative of the Nyungar languages. Kalarko–Mirniny language Mirning...
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