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Kingkel languages

Kingkel languages

Pama–Nyungan language branch of Australia

Kingkel is a putative small branch of the Pama–Nyungan family in Queensland, consisting of:

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The two languages are not close.

Bowern (2011) reclassified Darumbal as a Maric language, but did not address Bayali. Bouckaert, Bower, and Atkinson (2018), based on more data and languages of the region, classify Darumbal as a sister of Mbabaram (and therefore related to Maric languages, though as the first to branch off within that group). Bayali is grouped with Waka-Kabi languages to the south.

Map of traditional lands of Aboriginal people around Mackay, Rockhampton and Gladstone, Queensland.

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