The Mantharta languages is the name given by linguists to a group of closely related languages in the southern Pilbara region of Western Australia

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The four languages classified as members of the Mantharta languages group are as follows.

• Warriyangka
• Thiin
  Thiin language
  Thiin is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.-Classification:Thiin is usually placed in the Mantharta subgroup of Southwest Pama–Nyungan languages, though Carl Georg von Brandenstein's 1967 classification had Thiin as a Coastal Ngayarda language.Thiin is similar to Jiwarli, and...
  
  
• Jiwarli
  Jiwarli language
  Jiwarli is an Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in Western Australia. It is one of the Mantharta languages of the large Southwest branch of the Pama–Nyungan family....
  
  
• Tharrgari

The name mantharta comes from the word for 'man' in the four languages. The Mantharta group is a member of the Southwest branch of the Pama–Nyungan family. The Mantharta languages are very closely related and it is possible that they were largely mutually intelligible.

External links

• Jiwarli information pages