Eastern Daly languages
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Eastern Daly | |
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Geographic distribution | Daly River region, northern Australia |
Linguistic classification | Macro-Gunwinyguan ?
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | east2374[1] |
The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
Eastern Daly |
The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were:
These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. All are now extinct.[2]
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References[edit]
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Daly". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Evans, 2003, The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia
- 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.