Nyulnyulan languages


The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia. Most languages in this family are extinct, with only 3 extant languages, all of which are almost extinct.

Internal classification

The languages form two branches established on the basis of lexical and morphological innovation.
Some lexical isoglosses between Proto-Western Nyulnyula and Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan:

Proto-languages

Proto-Nyulnyulan

The following reconstruction of Proto-Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor :
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The following reconstruction of Proto-Western Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor :

Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan

The following reconstruction of Proto-Eastern Nyulnyulan is from Stokes and McGregor :