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Kartu languages

The Kartu languages are a group of Indigenous Australian languages spoken in the Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia. They are thought to be closely related and to form a low-level genealogical group.

The languages usually considered to be members of the Kartu group are, from north to south:

The inclusion of Nhanda is dubious. It was excluded in Bowern & Koch (2004), but retained in Bowern (2011). Thaagurda was apparently also a Kartu language.

The name kartu comes from the word for 'man' in one of the languages.[specify] In some earlier work the word 'kardu' was spelled.[citation needed]

The Kartu languages form a branch of the Pama–Nyungan family.

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