Umbugarla language
Appearance
Umbugarla | |
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Region | Northern Territory |
Extinct | ca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight |
Darwin
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | umr |
Glottolog | umbu1235 |
AIATSIS[1] | N43 |
ELP | Umbugarla |
historic distribution of Umbugarla |
The Umbugarla language is an Australian language isolate once spoken by three people in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, in 1981, and is now extinct.
Classification
Umbugarla was once considered a language isolate (together with Ngurmbur as a dialect), but Mark Harvey has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages.[2]
References
- ^ N43 Umbugarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
External links
- Umbugarla Swadesh List at the Internet Archive