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
Midjamba
Native to	Australia
Region	Queensland
Ethnicity	Mitjamba (Mbara), Yangga
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Southern Paman Mbara
Dialects	Yanga
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

1. Mbara at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbara-Yanga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. 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)
4. "Mbara". connection.ebscohost.com. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
5. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii