Burarran languages
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Burarran or Maningrida is a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages
spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related:
In 1997 Nicholas Evans
proposed an Arnhem Land family
that includes the Burarran languages.
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...
spoken in northern Australia. It includes four languages, none closely related:
- GuragoneGuragone languageGuragone, also spelled Gorogone, Gun-Guragone, Gunagoragone, Gungorogone, Gurrgoni, Gurrogone, Gutjertabia, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in Arnhem Land. There were about 20 speakers in 1991, all bilingual in Burarra or Gunwinggu....
- BurarraBurarra languageBurarra is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Burarra people of Arnhemland.Other names and spellings are Barera, Bawera, Burada, Bureda, Burera, Anbarra, Gidjingaliya Gujingalia, Gujalabiya, Gun-Guragone , Jikai, Tchikai....
- DjeebbanaDjeebbana languageDjeebbana, also known as Ndjebbana, Gunavidji, Gunivugi, Kunibidji, or Gombudj, is a Burarran language once spoken by the Djeebbana people, who now speak English with some ability in their ancestral language. It has no close relatives....
(or Ndjebbana, also called Gunavidji, Gunivugi, Kunibidji, or Gombudj) - NakkaraNakkara languageNakkara is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Nakkara people of Arnhemland.It is also spelled Nakara or Nagara and also called Kokori....
In 1997 Nicholas Evans
Nicholas Evans (linguist)
Nicholas Evans is an Australian-American linguist.Holding a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the Australian National University , he is Head and Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University...
proposed an Arnhem Land family
Arnhem Land languages
The Arnhem Land languages are a proposed Australian language family spoken over a large part of Arnhem Land in northern Australia. The languages within the group are distinctive and not mutually intelligible....
that includes the Burarran languages.