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|Spoken near the city of [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] located in the [[Northern Territory]] in [[Australia]]. Also known as Gulumirrgin. Part of the proposed [[Darwin Region languages|Darwin Region language family]] and the only extant member of it as the [[Limilngan language]] had gone extinct since 2009.
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|Spoken in northern [[Australia]]. Often considered part of one Northern Daly family together with [[Tyeraity language|Tyeraity]]. Used to be considered genetically related to the [[Wagaydyic languages]], but nowadays they are considered genetically distinct.<ref>{{cite book |last=Nordlinger |first=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Nordlinger |editor-last1= Fortescue |editor-first1= Michael |editor-link1= Michael Fortescue |editor-link2=Marianne Mithun |editor-last2= Mithun |editor-first2= Marianne |editor-last3= Evans |editor-first3= Nicholas |editor-link3=Nicholas Evans (linguist) |title=Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis |publisher=Oxford: Oxford University Press |date=2017 |pages=782–807 |chapter=Chapter 37: The languages of the Daly region (Northern Australia)}}</ref>
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|[[Marrgu language|Marrgu]]
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|Marrgu had been assumed to be an [[Iwaidjan language]] like its neighbours. However, Evans (2006) has produced evidence that it was a [[language isolate]], with ''possible'' connection to the extinct and poorly attested [[Wurrugu language|Wurrugu]]
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|[[Mawes language|Mawes]]
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|Likely isolate.<ref>Foley (2018)</ref><ref>Harald Hammarström. 2010. The Genetic Position of the Mawes Language. Paper presented at the Workshop on the Languages of Papua 2, 8–12 February 2010, Manokwari, Indonesia.</ref>