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Worrorran languages

释义

Validity
References

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|name = Worrorran
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|family = One of the world's primary language families
|glotto=worr1236
|glottorefname= Worrorran
|child1 = Wunambal
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The Worrorran (Wororan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia.

The Worrorran languages fall into three dialect clusters:

(Northern) Wunambal
(Eastern) Ungarinyin (Ngarinyin)
(Western) Worrorra

In addition, Gulunggulu is unattested but presumably a Worrorran lect.^[1]

Validity

There has been debate over whether the Worrorran languages are demonstrably related to one another, or constitute a geographical language group.

Dixon (2002) considers them to be language isolates with no demonstrable relationship other than that of a Sprachbund.

However, more recent literature differs from Dixon:

Rumsey and McGregor (2009) demonstrate the cohesiveness of the family and its reconstructibility, and;
Bowern (2011) accepts the Worroorran languages as a family.^[2]

References

1. ^{{glottolog|gulu1236}}
2. ^Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

{{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2002 |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780}}
{{cite book |last=McGregor and Rumsey |year=2009 |title=Worrorran Revisited: The Case for Genetic Relations Among Languages of the Northern Kimberley Region of Western Australia |publisher=Pacific Linguistics}}

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