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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Australian Aboriginal language once spoken in Cape York in Queensland. Y34 Aritinngithigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute...
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Anindilyakwa (Amamalya Ayakwa) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Anindilyakwa people on Groote Eylandt and Bickerton Island in the Gulf...
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Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family. Yawarawarga is considered a dialect by Dixon (2002), a closely related language by Bowern (2001)...
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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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