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Name:
Wambayan
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
MacArthur Subgroup; Wambaya; Wombaia; Wambaja; Wampaja; Won-baia; Wom-by-a; Wombya; Yumpia; Umbaia; Umbia; Wambaia; Umbai; Wampaya; Wom-By-A
Spoken in:
Australia
Number of speakers:
12 (Wurm and Hattori 1981)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
20
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
12
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
wmb
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Mirndi (Mindi, Mind, Yirram-Barkly)
Parent Subgroup:
Ngurlun; Eastern Barkly Group; Wambayan; Wambayanic; Wambayan Family (wamb)
Child Dialects:
Gudanji; Kundanja; Kudanja; Gudandji; Kutandji (wmb-gud)
Wambaya (wmb-wam)
Binbinka; Binbinga (wmb-bin)
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Wambayan
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