Mudbura language
Mudbura (Mudburra), also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language of Australia.
| Mudbura | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Northern Territory, Australia |
| Region | Victoria River to Barkly Tablelands |
| Ethnicity | Mudbura, Kwarandji |
Native speakers | 92 (2016 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Mudbura Sign Language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dmw |
| Glottolog | mudb1240[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] | C25 |
McConvell suspects Karrangpurru was a dialect of Mudburra because people said it was similar. However, it is undocumented and thus formally unclassifiable.[1]
Sign language
The Mudbura has (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.[3]
gollark: Well, it's the only way it can actually *work*, unless you... use HTTP or something?
gollark: Basically.
gollark: Do you actually understand what I said about the quota thing now by the wæy?
gollark: That's not true. You can know in advance that some things are kind of bad ideas.
gollark: I expect it will end up being yours fairly rapidly.
References
- C25 Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mudburra". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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