Ngurlun languages

{{Short description|Mirndi language branch of Australia}}

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

{{Infobox language family

|name = Ngurlun

|altname = West Barkly (reduced)

|region = Barkly Tableland, Australia

|familycolor = Australian

|fam1 = Mirndi

|glotto = guda1245

|glottorefname= Ngurlun

|child1 = Ngarnka †

|child2 = Wambaya

|map=Mindi_languages.png

|mapcaption={{legend|#cc6699|Yirram}}

{{legend|#6666ff|Barkly}}

{{legend|#C2C2C2|other non-Pama–Nyungan families}}

}}

The Ngurlun languages, also known as Eastern Mirndi, are a branch of the Mirndi languages spoken around in the Barkly Tableland of Northern Territory, Australia. The branch consists of two to four languages, depending on what is considered a dialect: Ngarnka, Wambaya, and often Binbinka and Gurdanji.{{Cite book |last=Harvey |first=Mark David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQwLAQAAMAAJ |title=Proto Mirndi: A discontinuous language family in Northern Australia |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-85883-588-7 |series=PL 593 |location=Canberra |pages=3 |language=en}}

The group was formerly thought to be most closely related to the Jingulu language, with this larger group called West Barkly or simply Barkly,{{cite journal | last = Green | first= Ian | author-link = Ian Green | year = 1995 | title = The death of 'prefixing': contact induced typological change in northern Australia | journal = Berkeley Linguistics Society | volume = 21 | pages = 414–425}} but the connection is no longer thought to be genealogical.