Umbugarla language

Umbugarla
Umbugarla
Mbukarla
Region	Northern Territory
Extinct	ca. 2000; with the death of Butcher Knight
Language family	Darwin Umbugarlic Umbugarla; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	umr
Glottolog	umbu1235
AIATSIS	N43
ELP	Umbugarla
	historic distribution of Umbugarla

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 has made a case for it being part of a family of Darwin Region languages.^[2]

References[]

^ N43 Umbugarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

External links[]

Umbugarla Swadesh List at the Internet Archive

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[AIATSIS-1] N43 Umbugarla at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[2] Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)

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