Wangkumara language

Wangkumara
Wongkumara
Spoken in Queensland
Extinct ?
Language family
Writing system Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbxNgura
Linguist List nbx-won

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 around Cooper 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.

References

  1. ^ Australian Dictionary of Biography (2006-00-00). "Dixon, Lorna Rose (1917? - 1976)". http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140009b.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 

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