The Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing 306 out of 400 Aboriginal languages in Australia...
26 KB (2,449 words) - 01:42, 2 December 2024
Australian Aboriginal languages (redirect from Non-Pama-Nyungan languages)
languages belong to the widespread Pama–Nyungan family, while the remainder are classified as "non-Pama–Nyungan", which is a term of convenience that does...
70 KB (6,499 words) - 23:39, 5 December 2024
Macro-Pama-Nyungan is an umbrella term used to refer to a proposed Indigenous Australian language family. It was coined by the Australian linguist Nicholas...
24 KB (2,211 words) - 13:01, 8 December 2024
singular. 13 Valencian. 14 Western varieties only. One common feature of Pama–Nyungan languages, the largest family of Australian Aboriginal languages, is the...
34 KB (2,196 words) - 00:48, 10 November 2024
Proto-Pama–Nyungan is a hypothetical ancestral language from which all Pama–Nyungan languages are supposed to have derived. It may have been spoken as...
10 KB (514 words) - 19:43, 18 March 2024
Lexicostatistics (section Pama-Nyungan)
and African languages. The problem of internal branching within the Pama-Nyungan language family has been a long-standing issue for Australianist linguistics...
13 KB (1,519 words) - 23:48, 30 September 2024
Northeast Pama–Nyungan, or Pama–Maric, is a hypothetical language family consisting of the following neighboring branches of the Pama–Nyungan family of Australian...
1 KB (67 words) - 03:31, 13 June 2024
one large group, the Pama–Nyungan languages. The rest are sometimes lumped under the term "non-Pama–Nyungan". The Pama–Nyungan languages form the majority...
320 KB (29,614 words) - 11:43, 8 December 2024
Guugu Yimithirr people of Far North Queensland. It belongs to the Pama-Nyungan language family. Most of the speakers today live at the community of Hope...
16 KB (1,486 words) - 16:59, 22 December 2024
Southwest Pama–Nyungan or Nyungic language group is the most diverse and widespread, though hypothetical, subfamily of the Pama–Nyungan language family...
2 KB (147 words) - 21:11, 18 June 2023
Yanyuwa language of northern Australia, which has been placed in the Pama–Nyungan family. Since linguists do not always agree on whether a genetic relationship...
71 KB (4,558 words) - 20:06, 17 December 2024
Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. The Antakarinya people were greatly affected by the atomic testing...
2 KB (102 words) - 11:15, 21 December 2022
Noongar language (redirect from Nyungan languages)
either [r, ɾ] or a glide [ɹ]. Noongar grammar is fairly typical of Pama–Nyungan languages in that it is agglutinating, with words and phrases formed by...
38 KB (3,434 words) - 22:19, 8 December 2024
Punthamara, Kungadutji, ?Thereila Extinct probably by 2005 Language family Pama–Nyungan Karnic East Karnic (Ngura) Wilson River Dialects Punthamara (Bundhamara)...
8 KB (540 words) - 16:14, 9 November 2024
In many languages, the colors described in English as "blue" and "green" are colexified, i.e., expressed using a single umbrella term. To render this ambiguous...
70 KB (7,979 words) - 14:19, 19 December 2024
branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. O'Grady et al., however, classify it as the sole member of the "Kalkatungic group" of the Pama-Nyungan family, and Dixon...
7 KB (454 words) - 22:27, 1 September 2024
Native speakers <20 (2018) 11-50 (2018-19) Revival Language family Pama–Nyungan Arandic Pertame Language codes ISO 639-3 None (mis) Glottolog pert1234...
4 KB (304 words) - 15:30, 11 November 2024
Hawaiʻian The Aboriginal Australian languages, including the large Pama–Nyungan family The Papuan languages of New Guinea and neighbouring islands, including...
333 KB (29,386 words) - 15:58, 16 December 2024
Turrbal Yagara Region Queensland Ethnicity Turrbal Language family Pama–Nyungan Durubalic Turrbal Language codes ISO 639-3 yxg Glottolog yaga1256 Yagara-Jandai...
12 KB (933 words) - 08:11, 18 November 2024
Garig Ilgar Pama-Nyungan Northern Territory, Australia by 2003 Alngith Pama-Nyungan Queensland, Australia by 2003 Areba Pama-Nyungan Queensland, Australia...
197 KB (7,186 words) - 13:47, 22 December 2024
Kaurna (/ˈɡɑːrnə/ or /ˈɡaʊnə/) is a Pama-Nyungan language historically spoken by the Kaurna peoples of the Adelaide Plains of South Australia. The Kaurna...
35 KB (3,364 words) - 04:13, 20 December 2024
Afroasiatic (381 languages) Nuclear Trans–New Guinea (316 languages) Pama–Nyungan (250 languages) Otomanguean (181 languages) Austroasiatic (158 languages)...
35 KB (4,141 words) - 10:06, 25 November 2024
thought to be too different from other languages to be part of the Pama–Nyungan language family. Dixon revealed it to have descended from a more typical...
9 KB (780 words) - 00:26, 22 December 2024
Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family. The name Wati tends to be used when considering the various varieties...
16 KB (1,267 words) - 11:19, 17 December 2024
Kamilaroi language (Gamilaraay pronunciation: [ɡ̊aˌmilaˈɻaːj]) is a Pama–Nyungan language of the Wiradhuric subgroup found mostly in south-eastern Australia...
20 KB (1,292 words) - 01:37, 27 November 2024
descent. The Torres Strait Islands are part of the state of Queensland. Pama-Nyungan peoples Kunapa: Northern Territory, Australia Pini: Western Australia,...
166 KB (14,163 words) - 20:02, 15 December 2024
century Revival Small number[quantify] of L2 speakers Language family Pama–Nyungan Yuin–Kuric Yora Dharug Dialects Dharuk Gamaraygal Iora Language codes ISO...
22 KB (2,122 words) - 05:10, 1 November 2024
is now classified as the Noongar language is a member of the large Pama–Nyungan language family. Contemporary Noongar speak Australian Aboriginal English...
47 KB (5,068 words) - 23:26, 22 November 2024
people aka: Cadigal Caddiegal (Tindale) Hierarchy Language family: Pama–Nyungan Language branch: Yuin-Kuric Language group: Dharug Group dialects: Cadigal...
16 KB (1,270 words) - 02:57, 26 November 2024
used is akarimantharra. Dixon (2002), who rejects the validity of Pama–Nyungan, accepts that Yanyuwa is demonstrably related to Warluwara and languages...
12 KB (902 words) - 11:28, 16 October 2024