Editing Warrongo language (section)

==Classification==
There appear to have been at least two mutually intelligible dialects.{{sfn|Tsunoda|2011|p=3}} Warrongo belongs to the [[Pama-Nyungan]] (macro)family. The most closely related languages are [[Gugu Badhun]] (90% lexical sharing in terms of [[Kenneth L. Hale|Hale]]'s 99-item vocabulary) and [[Gujal language|Gujal]] (94% lexical sharing).{{sfn|Tsunoda|2011|p=8}} The intermediate level classification of this group seems uncertain: the evidence from phonological correspondences, pronouns and verb roots suggests it belongs to the [[Maric languages|Maric]] group (alongside [[Bidjara language|Bidjara]], [[Gungabula language|Gungabula]], [[Marrganj language|Marganj]], [[Gunja language|Gunja]], [[Biri language|Biri]] and [[Nyaygungu language|Nyaygungu]]), while the verbal [[inflection]]al morphology is akin to that of the [[Dyirbalic languages|Hebert River group]] (which includes [[Dyirbal language|Dyirbal]], [[Warrgamay language|Warrgamay]], [[Nyawaygi language|Nyawaygi]] and [[Manbarra language|Manbarra]]).{{sfn|Tsunoda|2011|pp=7, 14}} It has been suggested that the verbal inflectional suffixes might have been the result of massive borrowing.{{sfn|Tsunoda|2011|p=14}}