Ngan'gityemerri language

Ngan’gityemerri
Spoken in	Daly River Mission, Northern Territory, Australia
Native speakers	275  (1988)
Language family	Daly? Southern? Ngan’gityemerri
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nam

Ngan’gityemerri (also Ngan.gi-tjemerri, Nangikurrunggurr) is an Australian Aboriginal language.

Classification

Ngan’gityemerri is closely related to Murrinh-patha. Together they form a branch of the Daly languages, called Murrinh-Patha by Ethnologue (2005) and the Southern Daly group by Dixon (2002).

References

• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780. 
• Reid, N. J. (1990). Ngan’gityemerri: a language of the Daly River region, Northern Territory of Australia. Ph.D. thesis. Australian National University. 
• Reid, N. J. (1997). "Class and classifier in Ngan’gityemerri". In Harvey and Reid. Nominal classification in Aboriginal Australia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 165–228. 
• Reid, N. J. (1997). "Complex verb collocations in Ngan’gityemerri: a non-derivational strategy for encoding valency alternations". In R. M. W. Dixon and A. Y. Aikhenvald. Changing valency: case studies in transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 333–359. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521660394. 

External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:nam