Mbara-Yanga language

Not to be confused with Yangga language or Mbara language (Chad).
Mbara-Yanga
Midjamba
Jangaa
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
EthnicityMbara, Yanga
Extinct1960s[1]
Dialects
  • Mbara, Yanga
Language codes
ISO 639-3mvl
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Glottologmbar1261
yang1308
AIATSIS[2]G21 Mbara, Y131 Yanga

Mbara (also known as Midjamba, Mitjamba, Ambara, Balgalu, or Bargal), and Yanga (also known as Jangaa, Janggal, Janga, Yangaa, Purkaburra) are mutually intelligible but separate Aboriginal language of Queensland, both now extinct.[3][4][5] Glottolog assigns a code to a group level as Mbara-Yanga (mbar1254). Yanga is not to be confused with the Yangga language, a dialect of Biri.

The Mbara and Yanga people were traditionally neighbours, along with the Gugu-Badhun, Yirandali, Wunumara and Ngawun peoples. The expansion of cattle farming and gold rushes in the second half of the nineteenth century affected the habitat of these groups.[6]

According to AUSTLANG, Yanga may be the same as Nyangga language and Ganggalida.[3]

  1. ^ Mbara-Yanga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ G21 Mbara at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  3. ^ a b "Y131: Yanga". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  4. ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  5. ^ "G21: Mbara". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  6. ^ Horton, David R. (Jan 1994). "Mbara". Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia: Vol. 2. p. 674. Archived from the original on 2015-01-07. Retrieved 17 Oct 2020 – via Ebsco Host Connection.