Proto-Pama–Nyungan language
Reconstructed ancestor of the Pama–Nyungan languages / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Proto-Pama–Nyungan is a hypothetical ancestral language from which all Pama–Nyungan languages are supposed to have derived. It may have been spoken as recently as about 5,000 years ago, much more recently than Aboriginal Australian peoples are believed to have been inhabiting various parts of Australia.
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Reconstruction of | Pama–Nyungan languages |
Region | Gulf Plains, NE Australia |
Era | perhaps ca. 3000 BCE |
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