along Fitzroy River, Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region
Linguistic classification
One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Eastern
Western
Glottolog
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Nyulnyulan languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)
The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in this family are extinct, with only three extant languages, all of which are almost extinct.
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The Nyulnyulanlanguages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in...
language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...
McGregor, W. B. (1999). "The Medio-active Construction in Nyulnyulanlanguages". Studies in Language. 23 (3): 531–567. doi:10.1075/sl.23.3.04mcg. McGregor...
The Jabirr Jabirr language, also known as Djabirr-Djabirr, is a Western Nyulnyulanlanguage formerly spoken by the Jabirr Jabirr people on the coast south...
names include larrgadi or larrgadiy, which is widespread in the Nyulnyulanlanguages of the Western Kimberley.[citation needed] Other names include: bottle...
some degree. It is an Eastern Nyulnyulanlanguage, closely related to Yawuru. K2 Jukun at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute...
(which they call mardoowarra). The Nyigina language is one of several eastern varieties of the Nyulnyulanlanguages, closely related to Warrwa and Yawuru....
Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is an endangered Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan family, mutually intelligible with Jawi and possibly other dialects...
Nimanburru is an extinct Western Nyulnyulanlanguage formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia. Archival...
Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language. Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages. Sounds /ɟ, ɡ/, when following /l/...
Ngumbarl is an extinct Nyulnyulanlanguage formerly spoken in Western Australia. In the early twentieth century Daisy Bates and Billingee recorded a word...
auxiliary verbs. One such Australian language with prevalent uses of light verbs is Bardi, a Nyulnyulanlanguage spoken in the north of Australia. Although...
linguists as non-Pama-Nyungan; "Other adjacent non-Pama-Nyungan language families are Nyulnyulan to the south-west, Bunuban to the south, and Jarrakan to the...
at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) K10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Nimanburu language was one of the Nyulnyulanlanguages. Their speech was described by other aboriginal informants as a 'heavy' dialect of the language spoken...
Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Dyao, and Dyawi. Jawi is a Non-Pama–Nyungan language of the Nyulnyulan family, most closely related to Bardi. Bowern discusses how Jawi...
verb from a transitive verb. Bardi is an Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan family which uses the root -jiidi- 'go' to denote anticausatives...
Bardi Jawi Rangers. The Bardi language is a non-Pama-Nyungan tongue, the most northerly variety of the Nyulnyulanlanguage family. It is mutually intelligible...
Council. 29 May 2014. McGregor, William (2001). "The verb HAVE in Nyulnyulanlanguages". In Baron, Irène; Herslund, Michael; Sørensen, Finn (eds.). Dimensions...
Adequate documentation of the Ngombal language is lacking, but the evidence suggests it was one of the Nyulnyulanlanguages, with William B. McGregor speculating...
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...
the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Warrwa is an eastern Nyulnyulanlanguage, sufficiently closely related to Nyigina to be classified as a dialect...
Jasanoff and Calvert Watkins. Her dissertation was about Bardi, a Nyulnyulanlanguage, and its verbal morphology, both diachronically and synchronically...
2022. List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) List of Australian Aboriginal languages at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) L17...
New South Wales.[citation needed] Many words from Indigenous Australian languages have found their way into Western Australian English. Examples include...
another significant wave of early immigrants, and they contributed Cornish language words, such as wheal (from Cornish hwel, "mine"), which is preserved in...
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