Mudbura language

Mudbura
Native to Northern Territory, Australia
Region Victoria River to Barkly Tablelands
Native speakers
48 (2005) to 47 (2006 census)[1]
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

The Mudbura have (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mudbura". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  4. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press


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