Umpithamu language

Umbindhamu
Umbindhamu
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Lamalama
Extinct	likely by 2003
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman Umbindhamu; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	umd
Glottolog	umbi1243
AIATSIS	Y50
ELP	Umpithamu

Umbindhamu (Umpithamu) is an extinct language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. Though generally accepted as a branch of the Paman languages, Dixon believes it to be an isolate. According to Rigsby (1997), Umbindhamu shares some grammatical features with the other languages spoken by the Lamalama people (Lamalama, Rimanggudinhma, and Morrobalama), but it shares more lexicon with Ayapathu and Umpila.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Y50 Umbindhamu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[AIATSIS-1] Y50 Umbindhamu at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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