Umbugarla language

Umbugarla
Region	Northern Territory
Extinct	ca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight
Language family	Darwin Umbugarlic Umbugarla
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`umr`
Glottolog	`umbu1235`^[1]
AIATSIS^[2]	`N43`
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.^[3]

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Umbugarla". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ 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)

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

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