Darumbal language

Darumbal
Guwinmal
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Darumbal
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Kuinmabara (Guwinmal)
Karunbara
Rakiwara
Wapabara
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xgm
Glottolog dhar1248[1]
AIATSIS[2] E46

Darumbal (Dharambal) is an extinct language of Queensland in Australia. It was spoken in the Rockhampton area of Queensland. Dialects were Kuinmabara (Guwinmal), Karunbara, Rakiwara, Wapabara. It is classified with Bayali as a Kingkel language, but the two are not close.[3]

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dharumbal". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Darumbal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.