Nimanburru language

Nimanbur
Region	Australia
Extinct	by 1982^[1]
Language family	Nyulnyulan Western Nimanbur
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nmp`
Glottolog	`nima1245`^[2]
AIATSIS^[1]	`K9`

Nimanburru is an extinct Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia. Archival records exist in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and some of the material in Hermann Nekes and Ernst A Worms' Australian Languages is from the language.

Languages of Australia

English varieties

Major indigenous
languages

Language families	Arnhem Bunuban Daly (four families) Darwin Garrwan Giimbiyu Iwaidjan Jarrakan Marrgu Mirndi Nyulnyulan Pama–Nyungan Tangkic Tasmanian (4 families?) Tiwi Wagiman Worrorran Yangmanic (Wardaman)

Pidgins, creoles and
mixed languages

Sign languages

Template:Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales

References

1 2 Nimanbur 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). "Nimanbur". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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