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| [[Laragiya language|Laragiya]]
|14
| data-sort-value=4 rowspan="24" |Moribund
| rowspan="3" |[[Australia]]
|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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|[[Lavukaleve language|Lavukaleve]]
|1,700
|Vulnerable
|[[Solomon Islands]]
|Classified as an Isolate by [[Endangered Languages Project]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Did you know Lavukaleve is threatened? |url=http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/10269 |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=Endangered Languages |language=en}}</ref>, Historically classified as a [[Central Solomon languages|Central Solomon language]], Little evidence was found of a relationship by Muller<ref name="ASJP-4">Müller, André, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Cecil H. Brown, Eric W. Holman, Sebastian Sauppe, Pamela Brown, Harald Hammarström, Oleg Belyaev, Johann-Mattis List, Dik Bakker, Dmitri Egorov, Matthias Urban, Robert Mailhammer, Matthew S. Dryer, Evgenia Korovina, David Beck, Helen Geyer, Pattie Epps, Anthony Grant, and Pilar Valenzuela. 2013. ''[https://asjp.clld.org/static/WorldLanguageTree-004.zip ASJP World Language Trees of Lexical Similarity: Version 4 (October 2013)]''.</ref>
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| [[Malak-Malak language|Malak-Malak]]
|10
|Moribund
| rowspan="2" |[[Australia]]
|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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|2,100<ref>{{cite web|title=SBS Australian Census Explorer|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/creative/census-explorer|access-date=9 Jan 2023}}</ref>
| data-sort-value="2" | Vulnerable
| rowspan="2" |[[Australia]]
| Spoken in the [[Tiwi Islands]] in the [[Timor Sea]]. Traditionally Tiwi is polysynthetic, but the Tiwi spoken by younger generations is not.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lee|first=Jennifer|date=1987|title=Tiwi Today: A Study of Language Change in a Contact Situation|url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/145421/1/PL-C96.pdf|journal=Pacific Linguistics|page=50}}</ref>
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|[[Touo language|Touo]]
|1,900
|Vulnerable
|[[Solomon Islands]]
|Classified as an Isolate by Glottolog<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.2 - Touo |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/touo1238 |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref>
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|[[Umbugarla language|Umbugarla]]
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" colspan="2" |Extinct
|[[Australia]]
|Possibly a language isolate. [[Ngomburr language|Ngomburr]] likely a dialect.
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