Mbara-Yanga language

Mbara (also known as Midjamba, Mitjamba, Ambara, Balgalu, or Bargal), and Yanga (also known as Jangaa, Janggal, Janga, Yangaa, Purkaburra) are mutually intelligible but separate Aboriginal language of Queensland, both now extinct. Glottolog assigns a code to a group level as Mbara-Yanga (mbar1254). Yanga is not to be confused with the Yangga language, a dialect of Biri.

Mbara-Yanga
Midjamba
Jangaa
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
EthnicityMbara, Yanga
Extinct1960s
Dialects
  • Mbara, Yanga
Language codes
ISO 639-3mvl
Glottologmbar1261
yang1308
AIATSISG21 Mbara, Y131 Yanga

The Mbara and Yanga people were traditionally neighbours, along with the Gugu-Badhun, Yirandali, Wunumara and Ngawun peoples. The expansion of cattle farming and gold rushes in the second half of the nineteenth century affected the habitat of these groups.

According to AUSTLANG, Yanga may be the same as Nyangga language and Ganggalida.

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