The Darwin Region languages are a small family of poorly attested 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]

• Laragiya (nearly extinct)
• Limilngan:
  • Limilngan †
  • Wulna †
• Umbugarlic:
  • Umbugarla †
  • Ngurmbur?
  • Bugurnidja?

Darwin Region
Geographic distribution	from Darwin area to the West Alligator River
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family.
Subdivisions	Laragiya Limilngan Umbugarla
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.

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 WWII.

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[ru] Лимилнганские языки