Mbara language (Australia)

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Mbara
Midjamba
Native to Australia
Extinct (date missing)[1]
Dialects
Yanga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mvl
Glottolog mbar1254[2]
AIATSIS[3] G21 Mbara / Midjamba, E52 Yanga (perhaps = Yangga)

Mbara, or Midjamba, is an extinct aboriginal language of Australia. The Mbara people were traditionally the neighbours of the Yanga, Gugu-Badhun, Yirandali, Wunumara and Ngawun peoples. [4]

Yanga was mutually intelligible.[5][3]

Speakers of Mbara and related dialects were affected by the gold and cattle rushes during the second half of the nineteenth century.[6]

References

  1. Mbara at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
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  3. 3.0 3.1 Mbara / Midjamba at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/reference-entries/28811400/mbara
  5. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  6. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/reference-entries/28811400/mbara