Darwin Region languages

Darwin Region
Darwin Region
(proposed)
Geographic; distribution	from Darwin area to the West Alligator River
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family.
Subdivisions	Laragiya; Limilngan; Umbugarla ?;
Language codes
Glottolog	None; lara1258 Laragia; limi1242 Limilngan-Wulna; umbu1235 Umbugarla
	Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey).
	; Closeup. From west to east they are: Laragiya, Limilngan, and Umbugarlic.

The Darwin Region languages are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey^{[citation needed]}. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:^[1]

Darwin Region
- Laragiya (nearly extinct)
- Limilngan
  - Limilngan †
  - Wulna †
- Umbugarlic
  - Umbugarla †
  - ?Ngurmbur †
  - ?Bugurnidja †

Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch.

Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:

Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur.

However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk, which were extinct by World War II.

References

↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)