Mudbura language
| Mudbura | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Northern Territory, Australia |
| Region | Victoria River to Barkly Tablelands |
Native speakers | 48 (2005) to 47 (2006 census)[1] |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Mudbura Sign Language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
dmw |
| Glottolog |
mudb1240[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
C25 |
Mudbura (Mudburra), also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language of Australia.
Karranga may have been a Mudbura dialect.[3] However, it is undocumented. Despite this lack of evidence, Bowern (2011) classifies it as a language isolate.[4]
Sign language
Main article: Australian Aboriginal sign languages
The Mudbura have (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.[5]
References
- 1 2 Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mudbura". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
- ↑ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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