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Amurdak

Amurdak is an Iwaidjan Proper language spoken in Australia. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

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Amurdak · 12.0°S 132.9°E

Amurdak, also rendered Amurdag, Amurdak, Amurag, Amarag and Wureidbug, was an Aboriginal Australian language historically spoken in an area around the eastern coast of Van Diemen Gulf, in the Northern Territory of Australia. No speakers were recorded in the 2021 census, although the last speaker, Charlie Mungulda, coauthored a paper in 2020. The language is deemed virtually extinct

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Words in Amurdak

MeaningWordRomanization
fatheriraba
personawuLu*
nameNiT*
eyewaLiwu*
earraT*
noseyuL*
toothNi5Tal*
tongueNaril*
handmara*
bloodmaniNul*
boneikada*
skinwiNiri*
kneemiri*
liverkalNkit*
waterarakarak*
fireuTali*
sunma5iT*
starmaradbiwiyi*
stonewaLaNada*
treeaLir*
leafmarar*
nightnaNuT*
dognaki*
fishalkaT*
oneyabaran*
twoiluburuk*
INayiwa*
youwamba*
weNarawa*
drinkya*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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