Mbabaram
Mbabaram was a Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in Australia.
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Mbabaram (Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland, traditionally spoken by the Mbabaram people. 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.
Recordings are held in the audio collection of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
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Words in Mbabaram
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| father | nganjan | |
| tooth | dirra | |
| tongue | jalnggulay | |
| hand | mara | |
| water | gug | |
| tree | jalay | |
| dog | dog |
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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