- The
Iwaidjan or
Yiwaidjan languages are a
small family of non-Pama–Nyungan
Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the
Cobourg Peninsula region of Western...
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Terrutong (Terutong),
Yaako (Jaako, Yako).
Marrgu had been ****umed to be an
Iwaidjan language like its neighbours. However,
Evans (2006) has
produced evidence...
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Wurrugu languages. They were once
classified as
distant relatives of the
Iwaidjan languages,
until Nicholas Evans found the
evidence for Marrgu's membership...
- families:
Bunuban (2) Daly (four to five families, with 11–19 languages)
Iwaidjan (3–7)
Jarrakan (3–5)
Nyulnyulan (8)
Worrorran (7–12)
Newly proposed families:...
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inventory but
Evans (1998)
briefly discusses vowels in his paper,
noting that
Iwaidjan languages including Amurdak have a
three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system....
- Ilgar, also
known as Garig-Ilgar
after its two dialects, is an
extinct Iwaidjan language spoken in the
mainland of
Cobourg Peninsula,
around Port Essington...
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established language families included in this
proposal are:
Burarran Iwaidjan Giimbiyu (†)
Gaagudju (†)
Umbugarla (†) McConvell,
Patrick and Nicholas...
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Ethnicity Wurango Era
attested 19th
century Language family Marrku–Wurrugu?
Iwaidjan?
Wurrugu Language codes ISO 639-3 wur
Glottolog wurr1238
AIATSIS N37 ELP...
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Nyulnyulan 3 94
Australia Worrorran 3 108
Australia Mirndi 3 261
Australia Iwaidjan 4 491
Australia Arnhem Mangarrayi-Maran 4 10
Australia Maningrida 4 1,434...
- Daly (5 families)
Darwin Region? (3 families/isolates)
Garrwan Giimbiyu Iwaidjan Jarrakan Macro-Gunwinyguan? (5-6 families/isolates) Marrku–Wurrugu? Mirndi...
