Ngurlun languages

The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji.

Ngurlun
West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic
distribution
Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classificationMirndi
  • Ngurlun
Subdivisions
Glottologguda1245
  Yirram
  Barkly
  other non-Pama–Nyungan families

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly, but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.

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