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Preferred term

vmbBarbaram  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Mbabaram is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland. It was the traditional language of the Mbabaram tribe. Known speakers were Albert Bennett, Alick Chalk, Jimmy Taylor and Mick Burns. Recordings of Bennett and Chalk are held in the Audiovisual Archive of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. R. M. W. Dixon described his hunt for a native speaker of Mbabaram in his book Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Most of what is known of the language is from Dixon's field research with Bennett.

Entry terms

  • Mbabaram
  • Mbabaram language

ISO 639-3 code

  • vmb

In other languages

  • Mbabaram

    French

  • Lenga mbabaram

    Piedmontese

  • Swedish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vmb

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