| Ngan’gityemerri | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Daly River Mission, Northern Territory, Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 275 (1988) | |
| Language family: | Daly Southern Ngan’gityemerri |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO 639-3: | nam | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the center of the mainland continent as well as the central northern regions For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Daly languages are a group of non-Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal languages spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Ngan’gityemerri (also Ngan. gi-tjemerri, Nangikurrunggurr) is an Australian Aboriginal language.
Classification
Ngan’gityemerri is closely related to Murrinh-patha. Murrinh-patha (literally "language-good" sometimes also called Garama, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by over 1500 people most of whom live Together they form a branch of the Daly languages, called Murrinh-Patha by Ethnologue (2005) and the Southern Daly group by Dixon (2002). The Daly languages are a group of non-Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal languages spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory Ethnologue Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics a Christian Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon ( Gloucester, England, January 25 1939) is a Professor of Linguistics and formerly Director of the Research Centre
References
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon ( Gloucester, England, January 25 1939) is a Professor of Linguistics and formerly Director of the Research Centre Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Reid, N. J. (1990). Ngan’gityemerri: a language of the Daly River region, Northern Territory of Australia, Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University.
- Reid, N. J. (1997). "Class and classifier in Ngan’gityemerri", in Harvey and Reid: Nominal classification in Aboriginal Australia. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 165–228.
- Reid, N. J. (1997). "Complex verb collocations in Ngan’gityemerri: a non-derivational strategy for encoding valency alternations", in R. M. W. Dixon and A. Y. Aikhenvald: Changing valency: case studies in transitivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 333–359.
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