- Source: Nyulnyulan languages
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.
Internal classification
The languages form two branches established on the basis of lexical and morphological innovation.
Vocabulary
Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Nyulnyulan languages:
Lexical isoglosses
Some lexical isoglosses between Proto-Western Nyulnyulan and Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan:
Proto-languages
= Proto-Nyulnyulan
=The following reconstruction of Proto-Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor (2003):
Abbreviations
WNN: Western Nyulnyulan
ENN: Eastern Nyulnyulan
= Proto-Western Nyulnyulan
=The following reconstruction of Proto-Western Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor (2003):
= Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan
=The following reconstruction of Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor (2003):
References
Bowern, Claire. 2004. Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective PhD, Harvard University
Bowern, Claire. 2010. Two Missing Pieces in a Nyulnyulan Jigsaw Puzzle. LSA, Baltimore.
Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans (ed.). The Non-Pama–Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent's Most Linguistically Complex Region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 29–74.
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