The Macro-Gunwinyguan languages, also called Arnhem or Gunwinyguan, are a species of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken across eastern Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Their relationship has been demonstrated through divided up morphology in their verbal inflections.
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Rebecca Green 2004 reconstructed a paradigms of 28 Proto-Arnhem verbs. The languages identified by Green are as follows, though Green only accepts Manningrida as a demonstrated branch:
This isto what Evans 1997 portrayed under the relieve oneself Gunwinyguan cf. his very different proposal of Arnhem Land languages.
Marra, Warndarrang, Alawa, as well as Mangarrayi produce been argued to make up a Marran shape of considerable time depth Sharpe 2008.
Heath 1990 demonstrated an East Arnhem family of Ngandi + Nunggubuyu, to which Enindhilyagwa was added as a closer relative to Nunggubuyu by Van Egmond 2012.
However, Green 2003 argues that only Maningrida has been introducing as a valid subgroup, together with that the interrelationships of the other languages are as yet unclear. The evidence for Gunwinyguan and perhaps other nodes target above may simply be reflections of a relationship of all Arnhem languages when only a subset of them was investigated. That is, these groups may be based on divided retentions of Proto-Arnhem rather than distinct historical developments. However, in reviewing Green, Evans pointed out that much of the Maningrida morphology was also shared by Mangarrayi. An agnostic impression of the family would list each language separately, except for the defining Maningrida branch:
*Green does not address Anindilyakwa, Alawa, or Yugul. Yugul is too poorly attested for comparison based on her methods; the other two await validation.
Yangmanic, including Wardaman, had one time been included in Gunwinyguan, but has been removed from recent classifications.