Marrku–Wurrugu languages
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Marrku–Wurrugu languages
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The Marrku–Wurrugu languages are a possible language family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land. They are the recently extinct Marrgu, and the extinct Wurrugu. They were once classified as distant relatives of the other Iwaidjan languages, until Nicholas Evans found the evidence for Marrgu's membership insufficient, concluding that similarities were due to borrowing. The genetic grouping of Marrgu and Wurrugu is supported by the follow
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Languages of the Northern Territory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrku%E2%80%93Wurrugu_languages
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2023-10-03T23:23:17Z
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