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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Pilbara languages Ngayarda languages Kanyara-Mantharta languages Kartu–Nhanda languages Mirning languages Nyunga languages Yinggarda language According...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Gamilaraay or Kamilaroi language (Gamilaraay pronunciation: [ɡ̊aˌmilaˈɻaːj]) is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in...
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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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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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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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Warriyangga (section Language)
Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024. Austin, Peter (2015). A Grammar of the Mantharta Languages, Western Australia. School of Oriental and African Studies. Bates...
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Yankunytjatjara dialect (redirect from Yankuntjatjarra language)
language. It is one of the Wati languages, belonging to the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the many varieties of the Western Desert Language...
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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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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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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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Aboriginal language. It was spoken by the Yaygir people in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. There are attempts to revitalise the language, including...
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Warray (Waray) was an Australian language spoken in the Adelaide River area of the Northern Territory. Wulwulam may have been a dialect. Ngorrkkowo may...
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spelt Gagadu, Gaguju, and Kakadu) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the environs of Kakadu National Park, in Arnhem Land...
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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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spelt Kuku-Yalanji, is an Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. It is the traditional language of the Kuku Yalanji people. Despite conflicts between...
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closely related languages from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. They are part of the Kanyara subgroup of the Pama–Nyungan language family. They are...
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a language of Queensland. Although no longer spoken as a native language by the Taribelang or Bunda people, it is spoken as a 2nd or 3rd language by...
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