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    The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in...
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  • McGregor, W. B. (1999). "The Medio-active Construction in Nyulnyulan languages". Studies in Language. 23 (3): 531–567. doi:10.1075/sl.23.3.04mcg. McGregor...
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    is no evidence that it was ever used to house prisoners. In the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley, boab trees are called 'larrgadiy' (alt...
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  • some degree. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulan language, closely related to Yawuru. K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute...
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    Western Nyulnyulan language spoken on the coast south of Broome in Western Australia. Grammatically it resembles other Nyulnyulan languages. It has a...
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    names include larrgadi or larrgadiy, which is widespread in the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley.[citation needed] Other names include: bottle...
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    Nyigina (section Language)
    (which they call mardoowarra). The Nyigina language is one of several eastern varieties of the Nyulnyulan languages, closely related to Warrwa and Yawuru....
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  • The Jabirr Jabirr language, also known as Djabirr-Djabirr, is a Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken by the Jabirr Jabirr people on the coast south...
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    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: Mirndi...
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  • Pama-Nyungan languages. Four endemic, primary language families are recognised within the core Kimberley region: Nyulnyulan languages, including languages spoken...
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  • The languages of Australia are the major historic and current languages used in Australia and its offshore islands. Over 250 Australian Aboriginal languages...
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    Nimanburru (section Language)
    Nimanburu language was one of the Nyulnyulan languages. Their speech was described by other Aboriginal informants as a "heavy" dialect of the language spoken...
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  • Ngumbarl is an extinct Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken in Western Australia. In the early twentieth century Daisy Bates and Billingee recorded a word...
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  • Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language. Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages. Sounds /ɟ, ɡ/, when following /l/...
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    Nimanburru is an extinct Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia. Archival...
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  • Jawi dialect (redirect from Chowie language)
    Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Dyao, and Dyawi. Jawi is a Non-Pama–Nyungan language of the Nyulnyulan family, most closely related to Bardi. Bowern discusses how Jawi...
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  • Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is an endangered Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan family, mutually intelligible with Jawi and possibly other dialects...
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    Bardi people (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    Bardi Jawi Rangers. The Bardi language is a non-Pama-Nyungan tongue, the most northerly variety of the Nyulnyulan language family. It is mutually intelligible...
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    linguists as non-Pama-Nyungan; "Other adjacent non-Pama-Nyungan language families are Nyulnyulan to the south-west, Bunuban to the south, and Jarrakan to the...
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  • Light verb (category Articles containing French-language text)
    auxiliary verbs. One such Australian language with prevalent uses of light verbs is Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language spoken in the north of Australia. Although...
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    at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) K10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
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  • the main language families of the world The language families of Africa Map of the Austronesian languages Map of major Dravidian languages Distribution...
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  • Council. 29 May 2014. McGregor, William (2001). "The verb HAVE in Nyulnyulan languages". In Baron, Irène; Herslund, Michael; Sørensen, Finn (eds.). Dimensions...
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  • Ngombal (section Language)
    Adequate documentation of the Ngombal language is lacking, but the evidence suggests it was one of the Nyulnyulan languages, with William B. McGregor speculating...
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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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  • Anticausative verb (category Articles containing Lithuanian-language text)
    verb from a transitive verb. Bardi is an Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan family which uses the root -jiidi- 'go' to denote anticausatives...
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  • Claire Bowern (category Linguists of Australian Aboriginal languages)
    Jasanoff and Calvert Watkins. Her dissertation was about Bardi, a Nyulnyulan language, and its verbal morphology, both diachronically and synchronically...
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    Warrwa (section Language)
    the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Warrwa is an eastern Nyulnyulan language, sufficiently closely related to Nyigina to be classified as a dialect...
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    2022. List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) L17...
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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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