Marrku-Wurrugu
2 languages
Marrku-Wurrugu is a language family of 2 languages; the most are spoken in Australia.
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The Marrku–Wurrugu languages are a possible language family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in the Cobourg Peninsula region of Western Arnhem Land. They are the extinct Marrgu and Wurrugu languages. They are sometimes classified as distant relatives of the Iwaidjan languages, although Nicholas Evans found the evidence for Marrgu's membership insufficient, concluding that similarities were due to borrowing (including of verbal paradigms).
The genetic grouping of Marrgu and Wurrugu is supported by the following observations:
Despite being geographically separated by the Garig-Ilgar languages, the two languages share a relatively high cognacy rate (15 out of 43 words = ~35%).
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