Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages
| Southwest Pama–Nyungan | |
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| Geographic distribution |
Southwestern Australia |
| Linguistic classification |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | sout3134 |
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The Southwest Pama–Nyungan or Nyungic language group is the most diverse and widespread, though hypothetical, subfamily of the Pama–Nyungan language family of Australia. It contains about fifty distinct languages.
The Kanyara and Mantharta languages appear to be the most divergent of the Southwest languages. The others are sometimes collected under the name Nyungic.
The proposal has been largely abandoned. Bowern (2011) restricts "Southwest Pama–Nyungan" to Nyungar plus Kalaaku. (See Nyungic languages.) However - Tindale (1940) recorded a 'Rite of Circumcision' border arcing between the Thura-Yura languages & the Tangkic languages.
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