Ngurlun | |
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West Barkly (reduced) | |
Geographic distribution | Barkly Tableland, Australia |
Linguistic classification |
Mirndi
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | guda1245 |
Yirram
Barkly
other non-Pama–Nyungan families |
The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji. [1]
The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly, [2] but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical. [1]