Yabula-Yabula language
Extinct Australian Aboriginal language
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Yabula-Yabula (Jabulajabula) in an extinct language of Australia, located in Victoria and New South Wales. Dixon listed it an isolate, but Glottolog evaluates it as a dialect of Yotayota.[2] It shares only 44% of its vocabulary with Yorta Yorta, so is best considered a separate language. This may be due to the rapid lexical change involved after a person's death, as their name then cannot be uttered.[3]
| Yabula-Yabula | |
|---|---|
| Jabulajabula, Ngarimoro | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Victoria, New South Wales |
| Ethnicity | Ngarrimouro/Ngarrimowro |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yxy |
| Glottolog | yabu1234 |
| AIATSIS[1] | S38 |
| ELP | Yabula-Yabula |
Phonology
Consonants
The consonants of Yabula-Yabula are likely the same as those in Yorta-Yorta, based on analysis of wordlists.[3]
Vowels
Vowels in Yabula-Yabula were likely also identical to those in Yorta-Yorta.[3]
[e] is the rarest vowel. There are no vowel-initial words in Yabula-Yabula, but there are some in Yorta-Yorta, due to the deletion of [j] or sometimes [ŋ] before [a].
