Wangkumara (language)

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Wangkumara
Spoken in: Queensland
Language extinction: ?
Language family: Pama-Nyungan
 Karnic
  Karna
   Wangkumara 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: aus
ISO 639-3: nbx

Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language from the Karnic subgroup of the widespread Pama-Nyungan languages family and is sometimes also classified as a dialect of Ngura. In 1981 it was still spoken by 4 members of the Wangkumara (people) people around Coopers Creek, the Thomson River and the Warry Warry Creek, the town of Eromanga and the Nuccundra [1] in Queensland, Australia; today it might be already extinct.

Wangkumara is notable for being a language with a tripartite verbal alignment.

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  1. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography (2006-00-00). Dixon, Lorna Rose (1917? - 1976). Retrieved on 2007-07-23.

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