Ngurlun languages

Ngurlun
	West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic; distribution	Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classification	Mirndi Ngurlun;
Subdivisions	Ngarnka †; Wambaya;
Glottolog	guda1245
	Yirram Barkly other non-Pama–Nyungan families

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.[1]

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly,[2] but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.[1]

References

Harvey, Mark (2008). Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia. PL 593. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-85883-588-7.
Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21: 414–425.

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[Harvey-1] Harvey, Mark (2008). Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia. PL 593. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 978-0-85883-588-7.

[2] Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21: 414–425.