Darwin Region languages

{{Short description|Australian Aboriginal language family}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language family

| name = Darwin Region

| region = from Darwin area to the West Alligator River

| familycolor = Australian

| family = Proposed language family.

| child2 = Limilngan

| child1 = Laragiya

| child3 = Umbugarla ?

| glotto = none

| glotto2 = lara1258

| glottoname2 = Laragia

| glotto3 = limi1242

| glottoname3 = Limilngan-Wulna

| glotto4 = umbu1235

| glottoname4 = Umbugarla

| map = Darwin_Region_languages.png

| mapcaption = Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey).

| map2 = Darwin_Region languages (closeup).png

| mapcaption2 = Closeup. From west to east they are: Laragiya, Limilngan, and Umbugarlic.

| acceptance = proposed

}}

The Darwin Region languages are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey{{Citation needed|reason=Where does Harvey propose the Darwin Region as a genetic label?|date=October 2019}}. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:Bowern, Claire. 2011. "[http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/how-many-languages-were-spoken-in-australia/ How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?]", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 ([http://pamanyungan.sites.yale.edu/master-list-australian-languages-v12 corrected] February 6, 2012)

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• Darwin Region
• Laragiya (nearly extinct)
• Limilngan
• Limilngan {{extinct}}
• Wulna {{extinct}}
• Umbugarlic
• Umbugarla {{extinct}}
• Ngurmbur?
• Bugurnidja?

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Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch.

Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:

:Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur.

However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk, which were extinct by World War II.