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) 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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