Mudburra language

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Mudbura
Native toNorthern Territory, Australia
RegionVictoria River to Barkly Tablelands
EthnicityMudbura, Kwarandji
Native speakers
92 (2016 census)[1]
Mudbura Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3dmw
Glottologmudb1240
AIATSIS[1]C25
ELPMudburra

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

  1. ^ a b c C25 Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press