Mbabaram language: Difference between revisions

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'''Mbabaram''' is an [[language death|extinct]] [[Australian Aboriginal languages|Australian Aboriginal language]] of north [[Queensland]]. It was the traditional language of the [[Mbabaram tribe]].

The last native speaker of Mbabaram was [[Albert Bennett (Australian)|Albert Bennett]] who died in [[1972]]. Other known speakers were [[Jimmy Taylor (Mbabaram speaker)|Jimmy Taylor]] and [[Mick Burns]].

[[R. M. W. Dixon]] described his hunt for a native speaker of Mbabaram in his book ''Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker''. Most of what is known of the language is from Dixon's field research with Bennett.