The Iwaidjan or Yiwaidjan languages are a small family of non-Pama–Nyungan Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western...
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Wurrugu. They were once classified as distant relatives of the other Iwaidjan languages, until Nicholas Evans found the evidence for Marrgu's membership insufficient...
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paper noting that Iwaidjan languages including Ilgar have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of most Australian languages. N184 Ilgar at the...
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Bininj Kunwok Regional Language Centre. Retrieved 4 Jan 2022. Nicholas Evans, 2000. "Iwaidjan, a very un-Australian language family." In Linguistic Typology...
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established families: Bunuban (2) Daly (four to five families, with 11–19 languages) Iwaidjan (3–7) Jarrakan (3–5) Nyulnyulan (8) Worrorran (7–12) Newly proposed...
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the three-vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system typical of Iwaidjan languages (Evans 1998). Marrgu language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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([ɭ̆ ]) is found throughout South Asia, from Pashtun to Oriya, in the Iwaidjan languages of Australia, and sporadically elsewhere. A palatal lateral flap [ʎ̆]...
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but Evans (1998) briefly discusses vowels in his paper, noting that Iwaidjan languages including Amurdak have a three vowel (/a/, /i/, /u/) system. Australian...
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to Iwaidja language which occupies the northwestern corner of the opposite mainland. This is a language that belongs to the Iwaidjan language family of...
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Territory. Manangkari belongs to the Iwaidjan family of languages, and may be a dialect of Maung. Like most Iwaidjan languages, but unlike Marrgu, Manangkari...
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