West Barkly languages

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West Barkly Jaminjungan
Geographic distribution:	northern Australia
Genetic classification:	Mirndi  West Barkly
Subdivisions:	—

The West Barkly languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia.

The West Barkly languages fall into two branches:

• Djingili language
• Ngarndji and Wambaya

In the 1980s Neil Chadwick proposed that West Barkly is related to the Yirram languages in a family he calls Mirndi.

[edit] References

• McConvell, Patrick; and Nicholas Evans (eds.) (1997). Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 0-19-553728-9. 

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