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Mbabaram
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English
Alternative forms
en Mbara Barbaram Barbarem Bar-barum Balbarum Boobu-ram Mogmbabarum Umbarbarem Oombarbarum Wumbabaram Woombarbarram Woombarrmbarra
Proper noun
An extinct ergative Australian aboriginal language of the Southern Pama branch of the large Pama-Nyungan family of languages.
en DIXON: THE WORD FOR DOG. Languagehat https://languagehat.com/dixon-the-word-for-dog/ 2006-01-12 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260609071232/https://languagehat.com/dixon-the-word-for-dog/ 9 June 2026
See also
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Further reading
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