Nimanburru language

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Nimanburru is an extinct Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the eastern shore of the Dampier Peninsula in the north-west of Australia. Archival records exist in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and some of the material in Hermann Nekes and Ernest Ailred Worms' Australian Languages is from the language.

Nimanbur
RegionAustralia
EthnicityNimanburu
Extinctby 1982[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nmp
Glottolognima1245
AIATSIS[1]K9
ELPNimanburru
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b K9 Nimanbur at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ This map is indicative only.