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The Mirndi or Mindi languages are a Australian Aboriginal language family of northern Australia. The family's comes from the dual inclusive pronoun "we two" which is shared (in the form mind- or mirnd-) by all the languages. The family was first established by Neil Chadwick in the early 1980s.

Classification

The Mirndi family consists of five languages:

Western or Yirram group

Nungali
"Jaminjungan", a language cluster consisting of the dialects Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru

Eastern or Barkly group

Jingulu
Ngarnka
"Wambayan", a language cluster consisting of the dialects Wambaya, Gudanji and Binbinka

Languages of the western group make use of prefixes, which is typical of non-Pama-Nyungan languages, while the eastern group are non-prefixing, typical of Pama-Nyungan languages.

References

Chadwick, Neil (1997). "The Barkly and Jaminjungan languages: a non-contiguous genetic grouping in North Australia". In Darrell Tryon and Michael Walsh (eds.) (ed.). Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 95–106. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
Green, Ian; Nordlinger, Rachel (2004). "Revisiting Proto-Mirndi". In Clair Bowern and Harold Koch (eds.) (ed.). Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 291–312. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
McConvell, Patrick; Evans, Nicholas (eds.) (1997). Archaeology and Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Ancient Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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-The '''Mindi languages''' are a recently proposed family of [[Australian Aboriginal languages]] spoken in northern Australia, unifying the [[Djamindjungan languages]] with the [[West Barkly languages|West Barkly family]].
+The '''Mirndi''' or '''Mindi languages''' are a [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Australian Aboriginal]] [[language family]] of northern Australia. The family's comes from the [[dual grammatical number|dual]] [[inclusive and exclusive we|inclusive]] [[pronoun]] "we two" which is shared (in the form ''mind-'' or ''mirnd-'') by all the languages. The family was first established by [[Neil Chadwick]] in the early [[1980s]].
+==Classification==
+The Mirndi family consists of five languages:
+*Western or Yirram group
+:*[[Nungali language|Nungali]]
+:*"[[Jaminjungan language|Jaminjungan]]", a language cluster consisting of the dialects [[Jaminjung (linguistics)|Jaminjung]] and [[Ngaliwurru (linguistics)|Ngaliwurru]]
+*Eastern or Barkly group
+:*[[Jingulu language|Jingulu]]
+:*[[Ngarnka language|Ngarnka]]
+:*"[[Wambayan language|Wambayan]]", a language cluster consisting of the dialects [[Wambaya (linguistics)|Wambaya]], [[Gudanji (linguistics)|Gudanji]] and [[Binbinka (linguistics)|Binbinka]]
+Languages of the western group make use of [[prefix]]es, which is typical of [[non-Pama-Nyungan languages]], while the eastern group are non-prefixing, typical of [[Pama-Nyungan languages]].
+==References==
+*{{cite book |author=[[Neil Chadwick|Chadwick, Neil]] |year=1997 |chapter=The Barkly and Jaminjungan languages: a non-contiguous genetic grouping in North Australia |editor=[[Darrell Tryon]] and [[Michael Walsh]] (eds.) |title=Boundary rider: essays in honour of Geoffrey O'Grady |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics  |pages=95&ndash;106}}
+*{{cite book |author=[[Ian Green|Green, Ian]]; [[Rachel Nordlinger|Nordlinger, Rachel]] |year=2004 |chapter=Revisiting Proto-Mirndi |editor=[[Clair Bowern]] and [[Harold Koch]] (eds.) |title=Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method |location=Amsterdam/Philadelphia |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |pages=291&ndash;312}}
+*{{cite book |author=[[Patrick McConvell|McConvell, Patrick]]; [[Nicholas Evans (linguist)|Evans, Nicholas]] (eds.) |year=1997 |title=Archaeology and Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Ancient Australia |location=Melbourne |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
+{{ia-lang-stub}}
-==Reference==
-* McConvell, Patrick and Nicholas Evans. (eds.) 1997. ''Archaeology and Linguistics: Global Perspectives on Ancient Australia.'' Melbourne: Oxford University Press
-[[Category:Languages of Australia]]
+[[Category:Australian Aboriginal languages]]
-[[Category:Proposed language families]]
-{{ia-lang-stub}}