Maningrida languages

Maningrida
Burarran
Geographic
distribution		 Northern Territory
Linguistic classification Arnhem languages
  • Maningrida
Subdivisions
Glottolog mani1293  (Maningrida)[1]
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Maningrida languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

Maningrida, also known as Burarran, is a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related:

Green established the family by reconstructing the tense–aspect–mood inflections of Proto-Maningrida, and demonstrated common developments that set them apart from other Arnhem languages.[2][3]

Notes

    Citations

    1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maningrida". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    2. ↑ Green 2003, pp. 369–424.
    3. ↑ Koch 2004, p. 44.

    Sources

    • Green, Rebecca (2003). "Proto-Maningrida within Proto-Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes" (PDF). In Evans, Nioholas. The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. pp. 369–424. ISBN 0 85883 5 3 8 X.
    • Koch, Harold (2004). "A Merthodological History of Australian Linguistic Classification". In Bowern, Claire; Koch, Harold. Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 17-. ISBN 978-9-027-24761-2.


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