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Ngurlun
West Barkly (reduced)
Geographic distribution	Barkly Tableland, Australia
Linguistic classification	Mirndi Ngurlun
Subdivisions	Ngarnka † Wambaya
Language codes
Glottolog	guda1245
Yirram   Barkly   other non-Pama–Nyungan families

The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji.

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly, but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.

References

1. ^ Harvey, Mark David (2008). Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia. PL 593. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-85883-588-7.
2. Green, Ian (1995). "The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia". Berkeley Linguistics Society. 21: 414–425.

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