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Mudbura language

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Signed forms
  
Mudbura Sign Language

ISO 639-3
  
dmw

Native to
  
Northern Territory, Australia

Region
  
Victoria River to Barkly Tablelands

Native speakers
  
48 (2005) to 47 (2006 census)

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Ngumpin–Yapa Ngumbin Mudbura

Mudbura (Mudburra), also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language of Australia.

Karranga may have been a Mudbura dialect. However, it is undocumented. Despite this lack of evidence, Bowern (2011) classifies it as a language isolate.

Sign language

The Mudbura have (or had) a well-developed signed form of their language.

References

Mudbura language Wikipedia