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ACLA Project Gurindji is a suffixing Pama-Nyungan language spoken in the north-west of Australia, particularly in Kalkaringi and Dagaragu. It is a member of the Ngumbin subgroup of languages which includes Ngarinyman, Bilinara, Malngin, Nyininy, Mudburra, Jaru and Warlmatjarri. Gurindji Kriol is the language transmitted to the new generation at present. www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au /research/projects/ACLA/gurindji.html   (440 words)

The Australian Language Family Their languages were thought to consist of vocabularies ranging from 100 to 300 words and incapable of discussing abstract thoughts (Dixon 4-5). The misconception that there was only one native language in Australia was just one of many that would hinder the acceptance of the aboriginal people and the study of their languages. Grey was the first to propose genetic relationships among the Australian languages and to even go so far as to develop a comparison of the lexicon of several native languages by using their cognates. www.mega.nu:8080 /ampp/australia.html   (3299 words)

ALS99 Abstracts The general conclusions of the paper are contextualised within the broader framework of negation in language, as well as the particular types of language change that languages in contact demonstrate. This follows from the fact, illustrated by the Ndjebbana and Ngalakgan forms, that free pronouns in the NPN languages often consist of the corresponding prefix + a base morpheme. This is a natural pattern of development in languages with obligatory cross-reference, such as the NPN languages, where free pronouns appear chiefly in topic functions. www.arts.uwa.edu.au /LingWWW/als99/elabs.html   (5788 words)

Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Australian Aboriginal languages In some languages the persons in between the accusative and ergative inflections (such as second person, or third-person human) may be tripartite: that is, marked overtly as either ergative or accusative in transitive clauses, but not marked as either in intransitive clauses. Too little is known of their languages to be able to classify them, although they seem to have had some phonological similarities with languages of the mainland. A language which displays the full range of stops and laterals is Kalkutungu, which has labial p, m; "dental" th, nh, lh; "alveolar" t, n, l; "retroflex" rt, rn, rl; "palatal" ty, ny, ly; and velar k, ng. www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Australian_Aboriginal_languages   (1644 words)

CRLC Newsletter # 5, December 2003 And indeed the same language may thrive in one habitat while it is dying in another due to the fact that it is in competition with different languages. Languages or species in turn consist of I-languages or idiolects – i.e., a communal language is an ensemble of I-languages. 'Language Contact and Globalisation: The Camouflaged Influence of English on the Worlds Languages - with special attention to Israeli (sic) and Mandarin'. crlc.anu.edu.au /newsletter/edition5.html   (7370 words)

MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Aboriginal Australians The largest language group within this family is called Pama-nyungan, taking its name from the words for “man” in two languages representing the extreme geographical ends of its distribution. Pama-nyungan languages are spoken across most of the continent. Although two groups at each end of such a range might find little apparent similarity between their languages, each pair of neighboring groups could readily understand each other. encarta.msn.com /text_761572789___6/Aboriginal_Australians.html   (3360 words)

LINGUIST List 6.1065: Antipassive and Reflexive Another case, I would suggest, is languages whose former reflexive marker now codes antipassive, but which in the meantime have innovated a new reflexive marker. But the languages which have separate explicit verbal morphology for reflexives and antipassives are, including sources: * Dyirbal (around Cairns) marks antipassive with -ngay-. Some time ago, I posted a question asking whether people knew of languages that had both a reflexive morpheme (attached to V) and an antipassive morpheme (attached to V), where the two were different. www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/6/6-1065.html   (567 words)

Abstracts I discuss these methodological issues with respect to the Pama-Nyungan languages, where Neogrammarian principles have not yet had a fair trial. In some modern languages (‘two-laminal languages’) these contrast; in others one or the other position (typically, but not always alveopalatal) occurs to the exclusion of the other; and in others the two positions are allophonically related. This involves quantifying the likelihood of observing the evidence assuming that the languages are NOT related as well as what is most often quantified, the likelihood of observing the evidence assuming that the languages are related. www.hum.ku.dk /ichl2003/abstracts/section7.html   (1259 words)

Classification and distribution (from Australian Aboriginal languages) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! The major issue in the internal subgrouping of Australian languages is the relationship between the Pama-Nyungan group, which covers 90 percent of the continent, and the residual non-Pama-Nyungan cluster, which stretches across northernmost Australia (except Queensland). The language or languages of Tasmania were not extensively studied before their extinction; the meagre surviving lists of Tasmanian words show the characteristic Australian sound system, but the words themselves do not form demonstrable cognate sets with continental languages. Language boundaries were marginal or irrelevant to political organization and were crosscut by kinship and marriage networks. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-235211   (1409 words)

Languages : Other Families This is similar to the languages of the Bantu Branch of the Niger-Congo languages in Africa. Most of the Papuan languages are spoken by a few thousand people and are little known. This family's 150 languages are divided into 7 branches. www.krysstal.com /langfams_other.html   (1210 words)

3. GENERAL WORK ON LANGUAGES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA The languages of the southern part of Australia are all Pama-Nyungan languages (see section 3.5), and all belong to the Nyungic group, according to Wurm (1972). Just because there are similar features in two languages does not necessarily mean that the languages are related, the shared features may be there because the languages are near each other, or there are common social activities, for example speakers of one language may marry speakers of the other. As more work is done to record languages and to understand the way in which Aboriginal societies work, we have come to recognise the complexity of relationships that mesh language group and social group in Australia (see Merlan (1981), Miller (1972) and Rigsby and Sutton (1980-82)). coombs.anu.edu.au /WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/oldWA/section3.htm   (1929 words)

AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE PATTERN Almost all of the suffix languages are classified in one family called "Pama-Nyungan" (PN) from the different names for "man", the Nyungan (green) which occupies most of the continent and the Pama (light blue) in the north-east. The prefix languages lie between them and all other PN peoples, and unless they achieved their present location by sea or by penetration of prefix-occupied land, this separation was due to penetration of prefix peoples into a region previously occupied by suffix peoples. The languages of this group are all of the distinctive kind where prefixes as well as suffixes are used and are naturally called "prefixing". www.zianet.com /docdavey/australian.htm   (4362 words)

Australian Aboriginal languages The Australian Aboriginal languages are a family of languages; some were spoken prior to the arrival of Europeans in Australia, and the rest are descended linguistically from them. These languages include the following language groups below the level of language family: encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/a/au/australian_aboriginal_languages.html   (78 words)

Oceania: Archaeology and linguistics: Aboriginal Australia in global perspective Both are Pama-Nyungan language areas but they are separated not only by non-Pama-Nyungan languages but also, in recent millennia, by the Gulf of Carpentaria. Although hedged with a few caveats by White, this is exactly the kind of evidence that should stimulate future directions of research on the origins and spread of Pama-Nyungan varieties and the relationship between their geographical expansion and the biological fate of Australia's ancient populations. In theory, new languages can be adopted by an existing population, or speakers of a new language can conquer and replace an older population whose language dies with it. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200109/ai_n9002085   (1261 words)

Kala Lagaw Ya language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is a language isolate within the Pama-Nyngan family that has been somewhat influenced by Papuan languages. This Indigenous Australian languages-related article is a stub. Kala Lagaw Ya (also Kala Yagaw Ya, Yagar Yagar, Mabuiag, Kala Lagau Langgus, Langus, Kala Lagaw) has the highest number of speakers of any Australian Aboriginal language. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kala_Lagaw_Ya_language   (115 words)

Pama-Nyungan - Wiktionary pama, man (in northeast languages) - nyungan, man (in southwest languages). the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, including Pitjantjatjara and Warlpiri. This page was last modified 12:24, 2 July 2005. en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Pama-Nyungan   (40 words)

publications.html Irrealis mood in the non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: The semantics of composite mood marking. Problems in the analysis of subordination in Germanic languages, and implications for layered models of clause structure. Pre-verbal positions in three Germanic languages: The role of scope as a functional principle. wwwling3.arts.kuleuven.ac.be /engling_e/people/jcv/publications.html   (632 words)

Garawa Although classified as non-Pama-Nyungan, Garawa is a suffixing language with case concord among phrasal elements, and has a split-ergative case system and fairly free word-order (all typical features of Pama-Nyungan languages) (Belfrage 1992:1). The pronouns of Garawa and Wanyi have both Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan features, which leads Blake to observe that, on the basis of the pronouns, these two languages "are the only languages in the whole continent that do not fall unambiguously into one set or the other" (1988:25). O’Grady, Voegelin and Voegelin (1966:33) classify Garawa (Karawa) as a non-Pama-Nyungan language, and a member of the Karwan family. emsah.uq.edu.au /linguistics/austlang/garrwa/backgrd.html   (379 words)

Research Projects Reconstructing the lexicon of the language ancestral to the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, with emphasis on terminologies associated with particular fields. Many of the languages which Anthony examines are Austronesian and he is very interested in certain kinds of changes (including changes which are apparently internally-driven) which some Austronesian languages have undergone. His key effort is to develop an evolutionary framework to locate language in relation to brain mechanisms for action and perception that we share with other primates, feeding into the integration of insights from primate studies and human brain imaging to develop a computational neurolinguistics. arts.anu.edu.au /crlc/research_projects.html   (4560 words)

Western Desert Language Workshop It is vital to establish a classification (subgrouping) within Nyungic (the western branch of Pama-Nyungan) to establish the position of Western Desert and what are its closest 'sister' and 'cousin' languages since, it is argued, the WD homeland is likely to be in or near to the territory one of these closely related sub-groups. It is expected that if a plausible subrouping can be established, inferences may be drawn from the spatial distribution of the subgrouped languages as to the plausibe location of the relevant proto-languages, and hence the possible route of linguistic expansion of the WD language itself. A semantic generalisation is that, unlike Ngumbin languages, the WD terminology appears not to include separate stems for 'upstream', 'downstream'. www.anu.edu.au /linguistics/nash/aust/WD/prog.html   (2293 words)

grammar.html Jiwarli is a Pama-Nyungan language, which means it uses suffixes to express shades of meaning, and reveal who does what to whom. Where we have shown you examples from the Jiwarli language, you will notice we have shown them in groups of three lines. Because Jiwarli uses suffixes for this purpose, it does not need to use word order to express who does what in a sentence (this is known as 'grammatical relations'). www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au /research/projects/jiwarli/grammar.html   (195 words)

ozpapersonline The semantics and pragmatics of composite mood marking: The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia A blog with notices of recent papers on the Indigenous languages of Australia. The Batchelor Institute's Centre for Australian Languages and Linguistics is ozpapersonline.blogspot.com   (316 words)

Bronwyn Eather's Home Page These are both polysynthetic non-Pama Nyungan languages, the analyses of which have required a substantial re-organisation of the traditional descriptive grammar pertaining to Pama Nyungan languages like Dyirbal (Dixon) or Warlpiri (Hale). My interest in the phonological idiosyncrasies of non-Pama Nyungan languages also involved participation in the Anindilyakwa Orthography sessions in Darwin in 1979. Of particular theoretical interest to me is the occurrence of an apparent double stop series in many languages of Arnhem Land and their subsequent re-analysis as a single series of short versus long (geminate) stops. web.maths.unsw.edu.au /~brianj/eather.html   (298 words)

Windschuttle-Gillin In his massive, three-volume study, A Guide to the World's Languages, Ruhlen made a broad division between the Pama-Nyungan subgroup, which is found in the east, south and west of the Australian mainland, and the non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern and northwestern Australia. The evidence presented here is intended to demonstrate that the bulk of non-Austronesian languages of Oceania from the Andaman Islands on the west in the Bay of Bengal to Tasmania in the southeast forms a single group of genetically related languages for which the name Indo-Pacific is proposed. Nonetheless his broad classification of world languages held that, apart from those of the mainland Australian Aborigines and the more recent "Austronesian" languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, there was a correlation between linguistic patterns and Negrito migration. www.andaman.org /book/chapter51/windschuttle-gillin.htm   (9843 words)

Languages of the World 8 there are probably around 100 languages that are on the path towards extinction... Languages mentioned: Mamu, a dialect of Dyirbal; Yidiny, a related language “of the 200 or so languages spoken in Australia before the European invasion about 50 are now extinct.. www.hku.hk /linguist/program/world8.html   (539 words)

Other links 'Why argument affixes in polysynthetic languages are not pronouns: evidence from Bininj Gun-wok.' STUF 52, 3/4:255-281. A sample of works on Ngalakgan and related languages. The "International" program in Indigenous Language and Culture Maintenance was recently held at Macquarie Uni in Sydney (July 2002) and was a great success. www-personal.une.edu.au /~bbaker2/other_links.htm   (174 words)

LINGUIST List 16.1891: Historical Ling/Australian Lang: Bowern & Koch Dixon has maintained is impossible for Australian languages. and a number of languages belonging to several families. modified, or for which reclassification of particular languages has been www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/16/16-1891.html   (2383 words)

LINGUIST List 14.3396: Typology: Sands In the second part of the paper KRISTINA SANDS looks at the non-Pama-Nyungan languages, which have previously been held to not contain ergative suffixes cognate with the Pama-Nyungan forms, and finds reflexes of the same form -Dhu. It is thus shown that cognate forms of the ergative are found in both Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan (*-Dhu), thus helping to establish what type of language proto-Australian was, and also providing important evidence that the Pama-Nyungan and non-Pama-Nyungan languages are related. However, as the result of a research project on Comparative Australian Studies (headed by R.M.W. Dixon and affiliated with the Australian National University) the author has carried out detailed comparative work on the ergative case suffix and proposes some alterations to the currently accepted reconstruction. www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/14/14-3396.html   (167 words)

Wiradhuri - KutjaraWiki The Phonetics and Phonology of Australian Aboriginal languages (http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/units/ling210-901/phonology/aboriginal/index.html) They should probably be checked by someone who knows. www.kutjara.com /wiki/index.php?title=Wiradhuri   (92 words)

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