Darumbal language

Darumbal
Guwinmal
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Darumbal
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
  • Kuinmabara (Guwinmal)
  • Karunbara
  • Rakiwara
  • Wapabara
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xgm
Glottolog dhar1248[1]
AIATSIS[2] E46

Darumbal (Dharambal) is a language of Queensland in Australia declared extinct. It was spoken in the Rockhampton area of Queensland. Dialects were Kuinmabara (Guwinmal), Karunbara, Rakiwara, Wapabara. It is classified with Bayali as a Kingkel language, but the two are not close.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dharumbal". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Darumbal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xxxiv.

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