Concept information
Preferred term
Ngadjunmaya
Definition
- Ngadjunmaya is a Pama–Nyungan language of Western Australia that is located in the Goldfields-Esperance region. Murunitja was apparently a dialect of either Ngadjumaya or of Mirning. Pama–Nyungan languages are the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, comprising 306 of the 400 Aboriginal languages of Australia. Ngadjunmaya is closely related to Mirning and Kalaamaya. Like the vast majority of Australian languages, also Ngadjunmaya is morphologically ergative, with the nominal in the agent role marked with an ergative suffix and the subject and object unmarked.
Identifier
- NJU
Notation
- nju
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/NJU
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