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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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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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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Alawa (Galawa) is a moribund Indigenous Australian language spoken by the Alawa people of the Northern Territory. In 1991, there were reportedly 18 remaining...
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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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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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The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family. The name Wati tends to be used...
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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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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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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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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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Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Hamersley Range, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is the traditional language of the Panyjima people...
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Rembarrnga (Rembarunga) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Northern Non-Pama–Nyungan languages, spoken in the Roper River region of the Northern...
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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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Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Nunggubuyu people ('Nunggubuyu' is nun- 'people of' + wubuy, the name of the language). It is the...
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(Tagalaka, Dagalag) is a poorly attested, extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. The Tagalaka inhabited the area, estimated at 3,900 square...
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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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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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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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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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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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Adowen, Gun-djawan), also known as Kumertuo, is a moribund Gunwinyguan language spoken only by elders in Arnhem Land, Australia. /ɾ/ can be heard as either...
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