Nyulnyulan languages

Nyulnyulan
Geographic distribution:	northern Australia
Linguistic classification:	a primary family of Australian languages.
Subdivisions:	Eastern Western
Ethnologue code:	17-113
Nyulnyulan languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia.

The languages form two branches established on the basis of lexical and morphological innovation.^[1]

• Western or Nyulnyulic:

Nyulnyul, Bardi–Djawi, Dyaberdyaber, Nimanburru

• Eastern or Dyukun:

Jukun, Yawuru, Warrwa, Nyigina, Ngumbarl

References

• Bowern, Claire. 2004: Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective PhD, Harvard University
• Stokes, B; McGregor, W. B. (2003). "Classification and subclassification of the Nyulnyulan languages". In N. Evans. The Non-Pama–Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: Comparative Studies of the Continent’s Most Linguistically Complex Region. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 29–74. 

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