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Darwin Region
Darwin Region
(proposed)
Geographic; distribution	from Darwin area to the West Alligator River
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family.
Subdivisions	Laragiya; Limilngan; Umbugarla;
Language codes
Glottolog	None; lara1258 (Laragia); limi1242 (Limilngan-Wulna); umbu1235 (Umbugarla)
	Darwin Region languages (red), among other non-Pama–Nyungan languages (grey).
	; Closeup. From west to east they are: Laragiya, Limilngan, and Umbugarlic.

The Darwin Region languages are a family of Australian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey^{[citation needed]}. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with two language isolates:^[1]

Darwin Region
- Laragiya (nearly extinct)
- Limilngan
  - Limilngan †
  - Wulna †
- Umbugarlic
  - Umbugarla †
  - Ngurmbur?
  - Bugurnidja?

Ngurmbur and Bugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined with Umbugarla to form the Umbugarlic branch.

Tryon (2007) lists the following varieties of Umbugarla–Ngumbur:

Ngunbudj (Gonbudj), Umbugarla, Bugunidja, Ngarduk, Ngumbur.

However, nothing is known of Ngunbudj or Ngarduk, which were extinct by World War II.

References

^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)