The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the
Mirndi languages
The Mirndi or Mindi languages are an Australian language family spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia. The family consists of two sub-groups, the Yirram languages and the Barkly languages some 200 km farther to the southeast, se ...
spoken around in the
Barkly Tableland of
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Aust ...
,
Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect:
Ngarnka
The Ngarnka, also Ngarnji or Ngewin, are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. They are often said to be the same as the Gudanji, one of whose alternative names is Ngarnji. However linguists distinguish between the language s ...
,
Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji.
The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the
Jingulu language
Jingulu, also spelt Djingili, is an Australian language spoken by the Jingili people in the Northern Territory of Australia, historically around the township of Elliot. The language is one of several languages of the West Barkly family.
The J ...
, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly,
but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.
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References
Indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory
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