Nimanburru is an extinct Western
Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the
Dampier Peninsula
The Dampier Peninsula is a peninsula located north of Broome and Roebuck Bay in Western Australia. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the west and north, and King Sound to the east. It is named after the mariner and explorer William Damp ...
in the north-west of
Australia
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. Archival records exist in the
and some of the material in Hermann Nekes and
Ernest Ailred Worms' ''Australian Languages'' is from the language.
References
Nyulnyulan languages
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