Nyulnyulan languages

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The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of Indigenous Australian languages traditionally spoken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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Label Occurrences
Nyulnyulan languages canonical 3

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language family
language family
alignmentType ergative–absolutive
arealFeatureOf northwestern Australia
continent Australia
country Australia
culturalAssociation Indigenous Australian cultures
coastal communities of the Kimberley
documentationStatus limited documentation
some languages well documented
grammaticalFeature case-marking on nouns
complex verb morphology
hasGlottocode nyul1240
hasISOIdentifier (family-level code not standard; members have individual ISO 639-3 codes)
indigenousTo Indigenous Australians NERFINISHED
languageFamilySize small
linguisticTypology non-Pama-Nyungan
memberLanguage Bardi NERFINISHED
Bargurr NERFINISHED
Gunin NERFINISHED
Jawi NERFINISHED
Jukun
Ngumbarl NERFINISHED
Nimanburru NERFINISHED
Nyulnyul NERFINISHED
Warrwa NERFINISHED
Worrorra (sometimes classified) NERFINISHED
Yawuru NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative
notPartOf Pama-Nyungan languages NERFINISHED
phonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
small vowel inventory
three-vowel system (typical)
region Kimberley NERFINISHED
relatedTo other non-Pama-Nyungan families of northern Australia
spokenBy Bardi people NERFINISHED
Gunin people NERFINISHED
Jukun people NERFINISHED
Ngumbarl people NERFINISHED
Nimanburru people NERFINISHED
Nyulnyul people NERFINISHED
Warrwa people NERFINISHED
Yawuru people NERFINISHED
state Western Australia
status endangered
moribund
severely endangered
some extinct
subdivision Eastern Nyulnyulan languages NERFINISHED
Western Nyulnyulan languages NERFINISHED
wordOrder flexible word order

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Yawuru languageFamily Nyulnyulan languages
Yawuru people languageFamily Nyulnyulan languages
Bardi people languageFamily Nyulnyulan languages
subject surface form: Bardi language