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Darwin Region languages

Australian Aboriginal language family

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ2590683 ↗
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The Darwin Region languages are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:

Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch.

Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:

Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur.

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“Darwin Region languages” enters the record as australian Aboriginal language family. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Darwin, Region and languages can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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