Arabana language

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Name (Latin)
Arabana language
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Pama-Nyungan languages
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Australia
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q3507959
Library of congress: sh 96007753
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 96130648: Hercus, L.A. A grammar ... Arabana-Wangkangurru language, South Australia, 1994:p. 6 (The Arabana-Wangkangurru language ... are really two languages; Arabana and Wangkangurru)
  • Ethno. index:p. 13 (Arabana language of Australia)
  • Ethnologue:p. 775 (Arabana, spoken in South Australia, Australian, Pama-Nyungan; nearly extinct)

Wikipedia description:

Arabana or Arabuna is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Pama–Nyungan family, spoken by the Wongkanguru and Arabana people. The language is in steep decline, with an estimated 250 speakers according to 2004 NILS, to just 21 speakers found in the 2006 census.

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