Eastern Daly languages

Eastern Daly
Geographic
distribution
Daly River region, northern Australia
Linguistic classificationMacro-Gunwinyguan ?
  • Eastern Daly
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologeast2374
The Daly languages (color), among the other non-Pama-Nyungan languages (grey)

  Eastern Daly

The Eastern Daly languages are an extinct family of Australian aboriginal languages that are fairly closely related, at 50% cognate. They were:

These languages had elements of verbal structure that suggest they may be related to the Macro-Gunwinyguan languages. All are now extinct.[1]

  1. ^ Evans, 2003, The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia