Umbugarla language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Umbugarla |
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| Mbukarla | |
| Region | Northern Territory |
| Extinct | ca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight |
| Language family |
Darwin
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| AIATSIS | N43 |
historic distribution of Umbugarla
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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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