Karnic_languages
Karnic languages
Pama–Nyungan language group of Australia
The Karnic languages are a group of languages of the Pama–Nyungan family. According to Dixon (2002), these are three separate families, but Bowern (2001) establishes regular paradigmatic connections among many of the languages, demonstrating them as a genealogical group. Bowern classifies them as follows:
- Karnic
- Arabana (Wangganguru) (Western Karnic; orig. part of Palku)
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- Palku (Northern Karnic)
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- Karna (Central Karnic)
- Yandruwandha (Yawarawarga)
- Mithaka (in the north); Diyari, Yarluyandi–Ngamini
- Eastern Karnic: Wilson River language (Wangkumara, Bundhamara (Punthamara), Ngandangara/Yarumarra, etc.)
- Karna (Central Karnic)