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    The Tangkic languages form a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. The Tangkic languages are Lardil (Leerdil)...
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  • Damin (redirect from Damin language)
    Forsyth Islands. Their languages belong to the same family, the Tangkic languages. Lardil is the most divergent of the Tangkic languages, while the others...
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  • Thumbnail for Macro-Pama–Nyungan languages
    Macro-Pama-Nyungan language family is made up of the Gunwinyguan languages from Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, the Tangkic languages from Mornington...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Kayardild language
    Kayardild is a moribund Tangkic language spoken by the Kaiadilt on the South Wellesley Islands, north west Queensland, Australia, with fewer than ten fluent...
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    use click consonants. Lardil is a member of the Tangkic family of Non-Pama–Nyungan Australian languages, along with Kayardild and Yukulta, which are close...
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    mainland. The languages are mutually intelligible, and tangka means "person" in all four languages). These languages were classified as Tangkic by Geoffrey...
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  • only used in the Kayardild and Lardil languages, two of the Tangkic languages of northern Australia. Language Diversity Endangered, p348, Matthias Brenzinger...
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    (4) Macro-Gunwinyguan languages (22) Greater Pama–Nyungan: Tangkic (5) Garawan (3) Pama–Nyungan proper (approximately 270 languages) Western and Northern...
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    non-Pama–Nyungan languages such as Tangkic share this typology and some Pama–Nyungan languages like Yanyuwa, a head-marking and prefixing language with a complicated...
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  • Dhalandji Mantharta Kayardild (one of the Tangkic languages) Korean Romani Tsakhur (one of the Lezgic languages – a primary branch of Northeast Caucasian)...
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  • Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. Lardil, now moribund, belongs to the Tangkic language family. The feature of kinship-sensitive pronominal prefixes had been...
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  • Nicholas Evans (linguist) (category Linguists of Tangkic languages)
    Australian languages, Papuan languages, linguistic typology, historical and contact linguistics, semantics, and the mutual influence of language and culture...
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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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  • ISBN 978-0-85883-388-3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected...
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  • Thumbnail for Yolŋu languages
    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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    Nicholas (1995). A grammar of Kayardild: with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic. Mouton Grammar Library. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-012795-9. Maddieson...
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  • Kaiadilt (section Language)
    The Kayardild language is an agglutinating, completely suffixing member of the Tangkic languages, but unlike most Australian languages, including others...
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  • Thumbnail for Yuin–Kuric languages
    The Yuin–Kuric languages are a group of mainly extinct Australian Aboriginal languages traditionally spoken in the south east of Australia. They belong...
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  • Thumbnail for Western Desert language
    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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  • Thumbnail for Dyirbal language
    Aboriginal languages have five or six. This is because Dyirbal lacks the dental/alveolar/retroflex split typically found in these languages. Like the majority...
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  • Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies L41 Iningay at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database...
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    Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. 2011. ISBN 9780987133717. Blake, Barry (1979). Handbook of Australian languages. Canberra: Australian National...
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  • Butterfly: Balam-balam Fly: Garragarrak Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press....
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  • Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv. "E23: Yuggera". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian...
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  • Noongar (or Nyungar) language before European settlement: it was a subgroup (or possibly a dialect continuum) of closely related languages, whose speakers...
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  • Yimithirr language - ABC News". ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 17 June 2020. "Y167: Dhalundhirr". Australian Indigenous Languages Database...
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  • Thumbnail for Arrernte language
    defines the Arandic group of languages/dialects as comprising 5 Aranda (Arrernte) dialects, plus two distinct languages, Kaytetye (Koch, 2004) and Lower...
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  • Thumbnail for Kulin languages
    The Kulin languages are a group of closely related languages of the Kulin people, part of the Kulinic branch of Pama–Nyungan. Woiwurrung (Woy-wur-rung):...
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    The Dyirbalic languages are a group of languages forming a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. They are: Dyirbalic Dyirbalic proper Dyirbal Warrgamay Nyawaygic...
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