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    The Jarrakan (formerly Djeragan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. The name is derived from...
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  • language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
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  • Wyndham Jarrakan languages, including languages spoken along the Ord River, from Halls Creek up to Wyndham and Kununurra. Pama-Nyungan languages spoken...
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    Non-Pama-Nyungan language and part of the Jarrakan subgroup. As is common in many Australian language communities, the Miriwoong people have a signed language that...
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    families: Bunuban (2) Daly (four to five families, with 11–19 languages) Iwaidjan (3–7) Jarrakan (3–5) Nyulnyulan (8) Worrorran (7–12) Newly proposed families:...
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  • the nearby Gajirrabeng and Miriwoong languages say it was similar to Gajirrabeng. This would place it in the Jarrakan family; however, it may instead belong...
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  • to the Pama-Nyungan language family which covers most Australian aboriginal tongues, but is a member of the small Jarrakan language group. It is still...
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  • it at home. It is in the Jarrakan language family, and is the language of the Gajirrawoong people. The nearby Gurindji language is known to have borrowed...
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  • Miriwoong language (AIATSIS "Miriwoong / Miriuwung") is one of the three surviving tongues of the Jarrakan languages, the word jarrak meaning language, talk...
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  • Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Blythe, J. Yuwurriyangem Kijam (our Language Kija): a...
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  • Language Code Change Request Number 2015-056 Kendon, Adam (1988). Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia : cultural, semiotic, and communicative perspectives...
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  • Duulngari (section Language)
    named Tuplung/Duulingari, is believed to have belonged to the Jarrakan languages. The language is extinct and little is known of it. Little is known of the...
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  • relation to other languages around the world, such as the Māori language in New Zealand and the Faroese and Icelandic languages. Some languages already have...
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    "Other adjacent non-Pama-Nyungan language families are Nyulnyulan to the south-west, Bunuban to the south, and Jarrakan to the east." Linguists classify...
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  • being Miriwoong. More recent work has established it as a member of the Jarrakan group. Gajirrabeng is at severe risk of extinction, with no more than perhaps...
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  • another significant wave of early immigrants, and they contributed Cornish language words, such as wheal (from Cornish hwel, "mine"), which is preserved in...
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  • Glottolog (category Language families)
    of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database...
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  • Australia Gooniyandi: Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, Australia Jarrakan peoples Gija: Halls Creek and Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia Miriwoongic...
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  • New South Wales.[citation needed] Many words from Indigenous Australian languages have found their way into Western Australian English. Examples include...
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