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Note on Australian languages with no known speakers: For some languages, we haven't been able to confirm speaker numbers. In other cases, there isn't anyone who has grown up speaking the language, but there are still people who identify with the language, and who are working to revitalize their languages. We've chosen to include these languages in the Catalogue for this reason.

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mbakarla, Mbukarla, Bugula, Numbugala, Ambugala
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		umr
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Umbukarla
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “The last speaker is dead: long live the last speaker!” (250-281 ch. 12) . Evans, Nicholas (2001) , Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff ·

Dormant
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Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The last fluent speaker, Butcher Knight, died sometime between 1987 and 2001.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1981

Dormant
0
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"No known L1 speakers."

PLACES: Australia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, southeast of Limilngan language area [lmc], between Mary and South Alligator rivers."

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PLACES: Australia

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3
Native speakers worldwide

	2007	Australasia and the Pacific	Atlas of the World's Languages	97-126		R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley	Routledge			4			Darrell Tryon	Tryon, Darrell. 2007. "Australasia and the Pacific." In Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley. 97-126. Routledge.	3	1981	1-9		Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
	2011	How many languages were spoken in Australia?			Also includes subsequent additions by CB directly into ElCat							http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx	Claire Bowern	Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.	0?				Dormant ()	Australia
	2012	LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)							Institute for Language Information and Technology		Eastern Michigan University	http://llmap.org	Anthony Aristar and Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie	Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry and Yichun Xie. 2012. "LL-MAP (Language and Location: A Map Accessibility Project)." Online: http://llmap.org.								-13.169661,131.916425
	2001	The last speaker is dead: long live the last speaker!	Linguistic Fieldwork	250-281		Newman, Paul and Martha Ratliff		Cambridge		12			Evans, Nicholas		0			The last fluent speaker, Butcher Knight, died sometime between 1987 and 2001.	Dormant ()
		World Oral Literature Project										http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.	3		1-9		Critically Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
18th	2015	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition				Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig	SIL International	Dallas, Texas				http://www.ethnologue.com		Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2015. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Eighteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com.	0			"No known L1 speakers."	Dormant ()	Australia	"Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, southeast of Limilngan language area [lmc], between Mary and South Alligator rivers."

Umbugarla

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Umbugarla

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