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The Daly languages are an areal group of four to five language families of Indigenous Australian languages (McConvell & Evans 1997). They are spoken within the vicinity of the Daly River in the Northern Territory. ==Classification == In the lexicostatistic classification of O'Grady, Voegelin and Vogelin (1966), the Daly languages were put in four distinct families. Darrell Tryon (1968, 1974) combined these into a single family, with the exception of Murrinh-patha. However, such methodologies do not account for loan words. Ian Green found that the languages could not be shown to be related by the comparative method, and so should be considered five independent families and language isolates.〔Green, I. "The Genetic Status of Murrinh-patha" in Evans, N., ed. "The Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent’s most linguistically complex region". ''Studies in Language Change'', 552. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 2003.〕 The features they do share also tend to be shared with neighboring languages outside the Daly group. The established families are: *Malak-Malak *Wagaydyic *Western Daly (Maranunggu, Marrithiyel, Marri Ngarr) *Eastern Daly (Matngele and Kamu) *Murrinh-patha *Ngan’gityemerri Murrinh-patha and Ngan’gityemerri are generally accepted as being related in a Southern Daly family. Malak-Malak and Wagaydyic have received less acceptance as Northern Daly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daly languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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