The Ngarna languages, also called Warluwarric or Warluwar(r)ic, are a discontinuous primary branch of the Pama-Nyungan family of Australia, first proposed in 1966 on the basis of the single language Warluwarra before later research linked it with several further languages. The branch splits into a southern group and the geographically separate Yanyuwa language, now moribund, which is related to the rest of the family only at the branch's uppermost level. The southern group further divides into a Ngarru cluster, comprising Wagaya and Yindjilandji, and a Thawa cluster, comprising Bularnu and Warluwarra itself, named after each cluster's own word for 'man' or 'Aboriginal person' following a naming pattern also used elsewhere in Pama-Nyungan classification. Nearly all Ngarna languages are extinct or moribund today.
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