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Umbugarla
Mbukarla
Region Northern Territory
Extinct ca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight
Language family
Darwin
  • Umbugarlic
    • Umbugarla
AIATSIS N43
Arnhem Land languages.png
     historic distribution of Umbugarla

Umbugarla or Mbukarla is a possible 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.

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