Umbugarla or Mbukarla is a possible
Australian
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language isolate once spoken by three people in
Arnhem Land, northern Australia, in 1981, and is now extinct.
Classification
Umbugarla was once considered a
language isolate (together with
Ngurmbur as a dialect), but
Mark Harvey
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has made a case for it being part of a family of
Darwin Region languages.
[Bowern, Claire. 2011.]
How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?
, ''Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web'', December 23, 2011
corrected
February 6, 2012)
References
External links
Umbugarla Swadesh Listat the Internet Archive
Darwin Region languages
Extinct languages of the Northern Territory
Language isolates of Australia
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