Wororan languages
| Worrorran | |
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| Geographic distribution |
northern Australia |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog | worr1236 |
Worrorran languages (purple), among other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)
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The Worrorran (Wororan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia.
The Worrorran languages fall into three dialect clusters:
There has been debate over whether the Worrorran languages are demonstrably related to one another, or constitute a geographical language group.
Dixon (2002) considers them to be language isolates with no demonstrable relationship other than that of a Sprachbund.
However, more recent literature differs from Dixon:
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