Eastern_Daly_languages

Eastern Daly languages

Eastern Daly languages

Austrailian Aboriginal language family

The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were:

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These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. All are now extinct.[1]

Vocabulary

The following basic vocabulary items are from Tryon (1968).[2]

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Evans, 2003, The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia
  2. [2]
    Tryon, Darrell T. "The Daly River Languages: A Survey". In Aguas, E.F. and Tryon, D. editors, Papers in Australian Linguistics No. 3. A-14:21-49. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1968. doi:10.15144/PL-A14.21
  • Tryon, D. T. (1968). "The Daly River languages: a survey". Papers in Australian Linguistics. 3: 21–36.
  • Tryon, D. T. (1974). Daly family languages, Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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