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Mirning language

Australian Aboriginal language

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6873793 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mirning (Mirniny) is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia.

Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Mirning or of its sister language Ngadjunmaya.

Phonology

Consonants

/c/ may also occur as a dental stop [t̪] among speakers.

Vowels

/a/ may also range to a back vowel [ɑ].

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mirning, language and Australian.
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Why this record matters

“Mirning language” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mirning, language and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6873793. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mirning language” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.