The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian Aboriginal languages from the Daly River region of the Northern Territory, whose two members, Matngele and Kamu, are fairly closely related, sharing about 50 percent cognate vocabulary. Its wider genealogical placement is uncertain, though it has tentatively been grouped within the proposed Macro-Gunwinyguan family.
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RegionVicinity of the Daly River, Northern Territory, Australia (eastern grouping among the areal Daly languages) 1 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. Sources
1. Wikipedia: Daly Languages
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They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory.
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