Northern Daly is a name used for a proposed grouping of Australian Aboriginal languages of the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. Malak-Malak and the Wagaydyic languages were once classified together as a Northern Daly family, though in more recent classifications the name Northern Daly is sometimes narrowed to refer to Malak-Malak alone, excluding the Wagaydyic languages. Its status as a genuine genealogical unit rather than a geographic grouping of convenience remains unsettled.
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RegionVicinity of the Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia (northern grouping among the areal Daly languages) 2 Linguist Ian Green found the Daly-area languages could not be shown to be related by the comparative method and treats them as independent families rather than branches of one Daly family; this entity records the shared geographic area, not a confirmed genetic grouping. Browse and compare
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1. Glottolog: Northern Daly (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 2
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Wikipedia: Daly Languages
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They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
Wikidata: Northern Daly
Wikidata Q55729392, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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