Mudbura language

Mudbura (Mudburra), also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language of Australia.

Karranga may have been a Mudbura dialect.[3] However, it is undocumented. Despite this lack of evidence, Bowern (2011) classifies it as a language isolate.[4]

Sign language

Main article: Australian Aboriginal sign languages

The Mudbura have (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Mudbura at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mudbura". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 
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  4. ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  5. ^ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press