Darwin Region
(proposed)
Geographic distribution	fromDarwin area to theWest Alligator River
Linguistic classification	Proposedlanguage 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.

TheDarwin Region languages are afamily ofAustralian Aboriginal languages of northern Australia proposed by linguist Mark Harvey^{[citation needed]}. It unites the pair of Limilngan languages with twolanguage isolates:^[1]

Ngurmbur andBugurnidja are poorly attested extinct languages, which are joined withUmbugarla 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 byWorld War II.

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