Nimanburru language

Nimanbur
Region Australia
Extinct by 1982[1]
Nyulnyulan
  • Western

    • Nimanbur
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nmp
Glottolog nima1245[2]
AIATSIS[1] K9

Nimanburru is an extinct Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia. Archival records exist in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and some of the material in Hermann Nekes and Ernst A Worms' Australian Languages is from the language.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nimanbur at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nimanbur". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.