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Yugambeh dialect

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Region
  
Queensland, Australia

Native speakers
  
1 (2005)

AIATSIS
  
E17

Ethnicity
  
Bundjalung people

Glottolog
  
yugu1249

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Bandjalang Yugambeh

Yugambeh (see below for other names) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Yugambeh people living on the South-East Queensland coast between the Logan River and the Tweed River (including South Stradbroke Island).

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Yugambeh is one of some dozen or two dozen dialects of the Bandjalang language. Among the differences in Yugambeh is that yugambeh (or yugam) is the word for no. The Yugambeh people use this to identify their language (those who say yugambeh for no).

There was not a separate Yugambeh people; the language is part of a dialect chain spoken by the Bundjalung. Yugambeh was the word for No, None or Nothing from the Logan River to the Clarence.

Names

Yugambeh may also be referred to as:

  • Yugambir, Yugabeh (Yugambal/Yugumbal was evidently a separate language located further west)
  • Yubumbee
  • Jugumbir, Jukamba
  • Manaldjali (probably from Mununjali, the name of a Yugambeh-speaking clan)
  • Minjanbal (probably from Minjungbal, the name of a Yugambeh-speaking clan)

    • Place names

    Modern place names with roots in the Yugambeh dialect include:

  • Canungra - from gungunga, a long flat or clearing
  • Coomera - from kumera, a species of wattle
  • Jumpinpi - Pandanus root
  • Mundoolun - from Mundheralgun, the local name for the Common death adder
  • Nindooinbah - from ninduinba, the remains of a fire.
  • Pimpama - from pimpimba, a place of soldier birds
  • Tabragalba - from dhaberigaba, a place of clubs
  • Tallebudgera - rotten or decayed logs
  • Wongawallan - from the words wonga (pigeon) and wallan (water)

    • References

    Yugambeh dialect Wikipedia
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