Eastern Daly languages
The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were:
- Matngele
- Kamu
| Eastern Daly | |
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| Geographic distribution | Daly River region, northern Australia |
| Linguistic classification | Macro-Gunwinyguan ?
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| Glottolog | east2374[1] |
 The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey) | |
.png) Eastern Daly | |
These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. All are now extinct.[2]
See also
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Daly". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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