The Wati (Western Desert) subgroup of Pama-Nyungan
Year: 2023

Abstract This chapter looks at internal variation among eleven varieties of languages known as Wati or Western Desert. Subgrouping within this part of Pama-Nyungan is difficult; here we shown, based primarily on morphological features, how different innovations cross-cut the network of Wati varieties. These languages form a complex dialect continuum; we comment on previous work that discusses dialect differentiation, before moving to a sketch which concentrates on morphology, in particular case