Ngumpin-Yapa_languages

Ngumpin–Yapa languages

Ngumpin–Yapa languages

Family of Pama-Nyungan languages

The Ngumpin–Yapa a.k.a. Ngarrka–Ngumpin languages are a family of Pama–Nyungan languages of the Pilbara region of Australia.[1]

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Ngardi, once classified as either Ngarrga (2002) or Ngumpin (2004), has been reassigned to the Wati languages.[1]

Vocabulary

Capell (1940) lists the following basic vocabulary items for the Ngumpin–Yapa languages:[2]

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References

  1. [1]
    Bowern, Claire. 2011. How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia? (corrected )
  2. [2]
    Capell, Arthur. 1940. The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia. Oceania 10(3): 241-272, 404-433. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00292.x
  • McConvell and Laughren (2004) "The Ngumpin–Yapa subgroup". In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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