Marbal dialect

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Marbal
Marbul
Region New South Wales, Australia
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None
AIATSIS [1] E91

Marbal (Marbul) is an extinct dialect of the Yugambal language that was spoken around Tenterfield in northern New England, Australia.

Macpherson (1905) describes the Marbal language as being spoken around Tenterfield, and notes that it is closely related to Ngarrabul and Yugambal. [2] Tindale (1974) speculates that Marbal or Marbul is in fact a mishearing of Ngarabal and not a separate language dialect. [3]

There is very little surviving information about Marbal, although Curr (1886–1887) does provide an anonymous word list for the Tenterfield region, that is presumed by Dixon (1976) among others to be a basic Marbal vocabulary. [4] [5] [6]

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References

  1. E91 Marbal at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Macpherson, J. (1905). Ngarrabul and other Aboriginal Tribes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 29, 677 - 684
  3. Tindale, NB (1974). Aboriginal tribes of Australia : their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits, and proper names. Berkeley: University of California Press
  4. Curr, Edward M. 1886-1887. The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent, Melbourne, John Ferres, Government Printer, Vol. 3, p. 78
  5. Dixon, RMW (1976). Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages. Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies: Canberra
  6. Wafer, J.W., Wafer, J., Lissarrague, A., Harkins, J. (2008). A Handbook of Aboriginal Languages of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Muurrbay Aboriginal Language and Culture Co-operative