Mbabaram

alternative Mbara · alternative Barbaram · alternative Barbarem · alternative Bar-barum · alternative Balbarum · alternative Boobu-ram · alternative Mogmbabarum · alternative Umbarbarem · alternative Oombarbarum · alternative Wumbabaram · alternative Woombarbarram · alternative Woombarrmbarra

1. An extinct ergative Australian aboriginal language of the Southern Pama branch of the large Pama-Nyungan family of languages.

   Four years later, when I was spending a year at Harvard and first met Ken Hale, he pointed out that the e and o had developed in Mbabaram in the same sort of way as in some languages he had worked on from further up the Cape York Peninsula.

   2006 January 12, “DIXON: THE WORD FOR DOG.”, in Languagehat