Umpila language

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Name (Latin)
Umpila language
Other forms of name
Ombila language
Ompela language
Ompula language
Umpilo language
See Also From tracing topical name
Paman languages
See Also From tracing place name
Australia
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q12953954
Library of congress: sh 88007043
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Thompson, D.A. Lockhartt River "Sand Beach" language an outline of Kuuku Ya'u and Umpila, 1988.
  • Curr. trends ling.:v. 8, p. 785 (Kuku-Ya'o and Umpila ... languages of Cape York Peninsula)
  • Ethnologue:p. 404 (Umpila. Pama-Nyungan family; Pama-Maric group, Middle Pama subgroup)
  • Voegelin:p. 277, under Middle Pama (Ombila=?umpila=Umpila=Ompula=Ompela=Umpilo, Cape Sidmouth and north nearly to Night Island)
  • I͡Azlyki i dialekty mira, 1982:p. 123 (Umpila (Umpilo))

Wikipedia description:

Umpila, also known as Ompeila, Ompela, Oom-billa, or Koko-umpilo, is an Aboriginal Australian language, or dialect cluster, of the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. It is spoken by about 100 Aboriginal people, many of them elderly.

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