Western Daly languages

The Western Daly languages are a small family of Australian aboriginal languages that share common grammatical forms. They are:

  • Maranunggu (Emmi; Menhthe dialect)
  • Marrithiyel (Bringen: Marri Ammu, Marritjevin, Marridan, Marramanindjdji dialects)
  • Marri Ngarr (Magati-ge dialect)

Western Daly
Geographic
distribution
Daly River region, northern Australia
Linguistic classificationOne of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Glottologwest2434[1]
The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

  Western Daly

See also

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Daly". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  • Tryon, D. T. (1968). "The Daly River languages: a survey". Papers in Australian Linguistics. 3: 21–36.
  • Tryon, D. T. (1974). Daly family languages, Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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