Mbara-Yanga language
Mbara, or Midjamba, is an extinct aboriginal language of Queensland. The Mbara people were traditionally the neighbours of the Yanga, Gugu-Badhun, Yirandali, Wunumara and Ngawun peoples.[4]
Mbara | |
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Midjamba | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Queensland |
Ethnicity | Mitjamba (Mbara), Yangga |
Extinct | (date missing)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mvl |
Glottolog | mbar1254 [2] |
AIATSIS[3] | G21 Mbara/Midjamba, E52 Yangga |
Yanga was mutually intelligible, but has also been classified as a dialect of Biri.[5][3]
Speakers of Mbara and related dialects were affected by the gold and cattle rushes during the second half of the nineteenth century.[4]
References
- Mbara at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbara-Yanga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- G21 Mbara/Midjamba at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- "Mbara". connection.ebscohost.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
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