Yirram languages

Yirram languages
Yirram
Geographic
distribution:		 Victoria River, Australia
Linguistic classification: Mirndi
  • Yirram
Subdivisions:
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  Yirram (between yellow, red, orange, & green)

The Yirram or Jaminjungan languages are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around the Victoria River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The name of these languages is derived from the dual clitic which is "yirram" in each of the languages.[1]

It consists of two languages, the Nungali language and the Jaminjung language. A third language has been proposed, Ngaliwurru, but it is often often thought to be merely a dialect of the Jaminjung language.[2]

References

  1. ^ Schultze-Berndt, Eva F. (2000), Simple and Complex Verbs in Jaminjung – A Study of event categorisation in an Australian language, p. 7 
  2. ^ Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society 21: 414–425. 



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