West Barkly languages

West Barkly languages

Infobox Language family
name=West Barkly
altname=Jaminjungan
familycolor=Australian
region= northern Australia
fam1= Mirndi
script=Latin alphabet
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.

References

*cite book |last=McConvell |first=Patrick |coauthors=and Nicholas Evans (eds.) |year=1997 |title=Archaeology and Linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in Global Perspective |publisher=Oxford University Press Australia |location=Melbourne |id=ISBN 0-19-553728-9


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