Wangkumara (language)

Wangkumara (language)

Infobox Language
name=Wangkumara
region=Queensland
extinct=?
iso2=aus
iso3=nbx
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-Nyungan
fam2=Karnic
fam3=Karna
script=Latin alphabet

Wangkumara or Wanggumara is an Australian Aboriginal language from the Karnic subgroup of the widespread Pama-Nyungan languages family and is sometimes also classified as a dialect of Ngura. In 1981 it was still spoken by 4 members of the Wangkumara (people) people around Coopers Creek, the Thomson River and the Warry Warry Creek, the town of Eromanga and the Nuccundra [cite web | author=Australian Dictionary of Biography | date=2006-00-00 | url=http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140009b.htm| title= Dixon, Lorna Rose (1917? - 1976) | accessdate=2007-07-23] in Queensland, Australia; today it might be already extinct.

Wangkumara is notable for being a language with a tripartite verbal alignment.

References

External links

* [http://www.latrobe.edu.au/linguistics/LaTrobePapersinLinguistics/Vol%2002/04Austin.pdf Verb compounding in central Australian languages.]


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