Arandic languages
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Arandic is a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages
, consisting of two dialect clusters, Arrernte and Kaytetye. Dixon (2002) had cast doubt on the validity of the grouping, but it was demonstrated with the comparative method
by Koch (2006).
Australian Aboriginal languages
The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to the Australian Aborigines of Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding the languages of Tasmania and the Torres Strait Islanders...
, consisting of two dialect clusters, Arrernte and Kaytetye. Dixon (2002) had cast doubt on the validity of the grouping, but it was demonstrated with the comparative method
Comparative method
In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor, as opposed to the method of internal reconstruction, which analyzes the internal...
by Koch (2006).