Eastern Daly languages
| Eastern Daly | |
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| Geographic distribution: | Daly River region, northern Australia |
| Linguistic classification: | Arnhem? |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | east2374[1] |
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The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
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Eastern Daly | |
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The Eastern Daly languages are a small family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They are:
These languages have elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Arnhem languages.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Daly". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ 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.
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