Mudburra language
Mudbura | |
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Native to | Northern Territory, Australia |
Region | Victoria River to Barkly Tablelands |
Ethnicity | Mudbura, Kwarandji |
Native speakers | 92 (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Mudbura Sign Language | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dmw |
Glottolog | mudb1240 |
AIATSIS[1] | C25 |
ELP | Mudburra |
Mudbura (Mudburra), also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language of Australia.
McConvell suspects Karrangpurru was a dialect of Mudburra because people said it was similar. However, it is undocumented and thus formally unclassifiable.[1]
Sign language
The Mudbura has (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.[2]
References
- ^ a b c C25 Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press