Ngumpin–Yapa languages
| Ngumpin–Yapa | |
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| Ngarrka–Ngumpin | |
| Geographic distribution: | Pilbara region, Australia |
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| Glottolog: | ngum1251[1] |
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Ngumpin–Yapa languages (green) among other Pama–Nyungan (tan). Ngumpin is the group in the north, and Yapa (Ngarrka) the south. The tan gap in the green is Ngardi. | |
The Ngumpin–Yapa AKA Ngarrka–Ngumpin languages are a family of Pama–Nyungan languages of the Pilbara region of Australia.[2]
Ngardi, once classified as either Ngarrga (2002) or Ngumpin (2004), has been reassigned to the Wati languages.[2]
References
- McConvell and Laughren (2004) "The Ngumpin–Yapa subgroup". In Claire Bowern & Harold Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngumpin–Yapa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Bowern, Claire. 2011. How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia? (corrected )
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