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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Matngele
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Kamu
These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the
Macro-Gunwinyguan languages
The Macro-Gunwinyguan languages, also called Arnhem or Gunwinyguan, are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken across eastern Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Their relationship has been demonstrated through shared morphology i ...
. All are now extinct.
[Evans, 2003, ''The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia'']
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary items are from Tryon (1968).
[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. ]
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See also
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Daly languages
The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages. They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Classification
In the lexicostatistic classification ...
References
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Daly languages
Language families