Mbabaram language

Mbabaram
Barbaram
RegionQueensland
EthnicityMbabaram
Extinct1979[citation needed]
Language codes
ISO 639-3vmb
Glottologmbab1239
AIATSIS[1]Y115
ELPMbabaram
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Mbabaram (Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland. It was the traditional language of the Mbabaram people. Recordings 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 speaker Albert Bennett.

  1. ^ Y115 Mbabaram at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies