Mbabaram language

Mbabaram (Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland, traditionally spoken by the Mbabaram people. R. M. W. Dixon described his hunt for a native speaker of Mbabaram in his book Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Most of what is known of the language is from Dixon's field research with speaker Albert Bennett. Recordings are held in the audio collection of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Infobox

Native to

Australia

Region

Queensland

Ethnicity

Mbabaram

Extinct

1972, with the death of Albert Bennett

Language family

Pama–Nyungan PamanSouthern PamanMbabaram

ISO 639-3

vmb

Glottolog

mbab1239

AIATSIS

Y115

ELP

Mbabaram

Tables

· Phonology › Vowels

High

Col 1

High

Front

Central

Back

Low-mid

Col 1

Low-mid

Front

Back

Low

Col 1

Low

Central

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Low		a

· Phonology › Consonants

Bilabial

Col 1

Bilabial

Peripheral

Velar

Peripheral

Palatal

Laminal

Dental

Laminal

Alveolar

Apical

Retroflex

Plosive

Col 1

Plosive

Peripheral

ɡ ɡʷ

Laminal

d̪

Apical

d dʷ

Nasal

Col 1

Nasal

Peripheral

Laminal

n̪

Apical

n nʷ

Lateral

Col 1

Lateral

Apical

Rhotic

Col 1

Rhotic

Apical

Semivowel

Col 1

Semivowel

Peripheral

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	b	ɡ ɡʷ	ɟ	d̪	d dʷ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n nʷ
Lateral					l
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel	w		j

References

Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker
https://books.google.com/books?id=tWHiDB9rJ5kC&pg=PA208
Y115 Mbabaram at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isla
https://collection.aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/Y115
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker
aiatsis
https://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/item/S0000265
glottolog
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mbab1239
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
https://www.jstor.org/stable/611096
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
https://www.jstor.org/stable/611096
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
https://www.jstor.org/stable/611096
Australian languages: their nature and development
Australian languages: their nature and development
Dixon 1972, p. 348.
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
https://www.jstor.org/stable/611096
Australian languages: classification and the comparative method
https://books.google.com/books?id=rmvmCvs9zQcC&q=Yidiny+dog&pg=PA264
The World's Major Languages
https://doi.org/10.4324%2F9781315644936-1