Where are Pama-Nyungan languages spoken in Australia?

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Distinctive features of Australia's Indigenous languages — Australian Aboriginal languages A discussion of the languages of Indigenous Australians.

The Pama-Nyungan language family is the most widespread group of Australian Aboriginal languages, covering approximately 90 percent of the Australian continent.1

While the non-Pama-Nyungan languages are concentrated across the northernmost regions of Australia—excluding Queensland—the Pama-Nyungan group occupies the vast majority of the remaining landmass. Notably, the Yuulngu group exists as a distinct Pama-Nyungan enclave, geographically separated from the primary Pama-Nyungan block by intervening non-Pama-Nyungan languages.1