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Western Daly languages map

7 Western Daly languages are on the map, most of them in Australia. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Bringen (5 languages). The best-known members include Ami, Maridjabin and Mariyedi. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Western Daly family at a glance

  • 7languages
  • 0drawn as areas
  • 7shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Western Daly alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Western Daly languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Ami spoken? (about 30 speakers)
  2. Where is Maridjabin spoken? (about 20 speakers)
  3. Where is Mariyedi spoken? (about 20 speakers)
  4. Where is Maranunggu spoken? (about 15 speakers)
  5. Where is Marithiel spoken? (about 15 speakers)
  6. Where is Maringarr spoken? (about 8 speakers)

Branches of Western Daly

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Bringen (5)
  • Maranunggu-Ame-Manda (2)

Where Western Daly languages are spoken

Countries with the most Western Daly languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 7 Western Daly languages, A to Z

Questions about Western Daly languages

How many Western Daly languages are there?

7 living Western Daly languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Bringen (5 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Western Daly languages spoken?

Australia (7) have the most Western Daly languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Western Daly languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Ami (about 30), Maridjabin (about 20) and Mariyedi (about 20). These figures differ between sources and years.

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