Maningrida languages
| Maningrida | |
|---|---|
| Burarran | |
| Geographic distribution | Northern Territory |
| Linguistic classification | Macro-Gunwinyguan?
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | mani1293 (Maningrida) |
 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.[1][2]
Notes
Citations
- ^ Green 2003, pp. 369–424.
- ^ Koch 2004, p. 44.
Sources
- Green, Rebecca (2003). "Proto-Maningrida within Proto-Arnhem: evidence from verbal inflectional suffixes" (PDF). In Evans, Nioholas (ed.). 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.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Koch, Harold (2004). "A Merthodological History of Australian Linguistic Classification". In Bowern, Claire; Koch, Harold (eds.). Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 17-. ISBN 978-9-027-24761-2.
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