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From the spatial distribution of categories, we are now able to set up a rough typology.

Generalised categories: Purungu, Karimarra and, to a lesser degree, Panaka. These
categories are spread among practically all groups and are the categories best dispersed in
space. It is possible to call these categories “general categories” or “generalised categories”.
Panaka is not used in the south-western part of the observed region, so other categories must

be replacing it.

Localised categories: Tjarurru and Yiparrka appear only in the southern and south-eastern
part. Paljeri is exclusively used in the northern and north-western part. Milaugka is enclosed
in a corridor joining the two areas of Tjarurru/Yiparrka and Paljeri. These categories are found
inside zones that are easy to delimit and are, therefore, called “localised categories”.

Dislocated category: Burgulu is neither a well-represented category, nor one that is
localised without ambiguity. What could be called a Burgulu zone is, in fact, interrupted by
groups that do not use this section name. Because of its lack of distributional homogeneity, it
may be called a “dislocated category”.