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Linguasphere-Register
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lsr Root ▶ 2= AUSTRALASIA geosector ▶ 28= NORTHAUSTRALIA geozone
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| id name |
| 28= NORTHAUSTRALIA geozone |
| list descendants |
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| position |
| 03.09 |
| nodeType |
| innernode |
| also |
| North-Australia; Northaustralia |
| keyWords |
| Australian |
| pdf |
| OL-SITE 1999-2000 MASTER ONE Sectors 2-Zones 25-29.pdf |
| lsrType |
| zone |
| grouping |
| geo |
| scale |
| 1.000 – 10.000 |
| lsrCountry |
| Australia (Northern Territory =N.T.; Western Australia =W.A.; Queensland) |
| notes |
| 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=. |
| statistics |
| 21 sets • 38 chains • 58 nets • 85 outerLanguages • 119 innerLanguages • 119 leaves • 321 descendants • 88 with wikidataLinks • 80 with iso639Links • 79 with ethnologueLinks • 95 with glottologLinks |