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| ID a Name b |
28= NORTHAUSTRALIA geozone |
| ID a |
28= index |
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198 |
| LSName h |
NORTHAUSTRALIA |
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zone |
| Grouping j |
geo |
| IsNotional k |
no |
| Notes l |
covers the "North-Australia" reference area (within the "Australian" hypothesis); comprising 21 sets of languages (85 outer languages) spoken or formerly spoken by hunter-gatherer communities (or descendants of former hunter-gatherers) across the far-north of Australia: 28-A BAADI+ YAWURU 28-B BUNABA+ GUNIANDI 28-C WORORA+ NGARINYIN 28-D KITJA+ MIRIWUNG 28-E DJAMINDJUNG+ NUNGALI 28-F MURRINHPATHA+ NANGIOMERI* 28-G KUNGARAKANY 28-H LARAGIA+ WULNA 28-I TIWI 28-J UMBUGARLA+ BUGUNIDJA* 28-K GAGADU 28-L ERRE+ MANGERR 28-M IWAIDJA+ AMARAG 28-N DJEEBBANA+ GUJINGALIA 28-O WAGEMAN+ GUNWINGGU 28-P ANINDILYAKWA 28-Q ALAWA+ GARYIMAR 28-R YANYUWA 28-S JINGILI+ WAMBAYA 28-T GARAWA+ WANJI 28-U MINGIN Only 14 among 298 surviving outer-languages in zones 28= and 29= (marked ✓) are likely to have totalled 1,000 or more voices each in 1999: see note under geozone 29=. |
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3 |
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21 Sets • 38 Chains • 58 Nets • 85 OuterLanguages • 119 InnerLanguages |