Pama-Nyungan
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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Of that enormous group of languages, most belonged to the Pama-Nyungan family, with dozens of branches that descended from a protolanguage probably spoken 6,000 years ago in the northeastern part of the continent.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
Not everyone agrees that Pama-Nyungan is one family, however, for, like other Australian language families, it presents a puzzling pattern of similarities and differences.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016
If Hale was right, then Pama-Nyungan, with more than 200 identified languages, would be one of the world's largest language families—larger than Indo-European and almost as large as Sino-Tibetan.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016
Some suggested that the Pama-Nyungan family, if it exists, entered the continent in a separate migration, whereas others argued that it split off from other Aboriginal languages only a few thousand years ago.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016
That suggests that Pama-Nyungan languages developed much as other world languages did, rather than being a rarefied case, she argues.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2016
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