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Pama-Nyungan

Ngarluma

Autonym candidate: "Nickol Bay" tribe unverified — from alt-names· 21 name candidates recorded

Comprehensivemoribund· AES 4LocatedIn the dated tree

Classification

Glottolog family tree

Country & location

Glottolog point

-20.9235, 117.2030

Provenance: glottolog

A point locates a language for reference; it never represents the full extent of a people’s Country.

Grammar profile

3 coded · 0 unknown

3 WALS — 3 coded features in total across 3 WALS.

Grambank’s 195 variables are a cross-linguistic baseline— a fixed questionnaire asked of every language — not “the grammar” of Ngarluma. Read each cell as an answer to a standard typological question. Compare languages in the grammar lens →

Showing 3 of 3 coded features.

WALS

3 features
Lexicon2
  • Hand and Arm

    WALS 129A

    Different
  • Finger and Hand

    WALS 130A

    Different
Nominal Categories1
  • Inclusive/Exclusive Forms in Pama-Nyungan

    WALS 39B

    Inclusive and exclusive differentiated

Dictionary & lexicon

Open lexical resource available — 1 entries, open licence, not yet ingested here.

English Wiktionary — Category:Ngarluma lemmas

Deep-time position

Bouckaert 2018 tree
Divergence from nearest relative
~583 yr BP
95% HPD 304–959 BP

Dates the LANGUAGE lineage (Bouckaert 2018 BEAST tree), NOT a population arrival.

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Codes & sources

Per-facet provenance

Classification
Glottolog 5.3 CLDF (CC-BY-4.0)
Coordinates
Glottolog 5.3 (CC-BY-4.0)
Endangerment
Glottolog AES (CC-BY-4.0)
Grammar
Grambank v1.0.3 / WALS 2020.4 (CC-BY-4.0)
Lexicon
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Deep-time
Bouckaert, Bowern & Atkinson 2018 (Phlorest CLDF, CC-BY-4.0)
Identifiers
Glottolog 5.3 + AIATSIS AUSTLANG

Data-completeness for this profile: name, any id, glottocode, iso639 3, austlang, classification chain, coordinates real, coordinates any, endangerment, grammar profile, lexicon data, deep time dated, autonym candidate. Autonyms are unverified candidates drawn from alt-name lists; coordinates carry a provenance flag; a spreading language lineage is not a moving population. Coverage tier: Comprehensive.