Mbabaram language

Not to be confused with the Bambara language or Mbaram language.
Mbabaram
Barbaram
Mbabaɽam
Native toAustralia
RegionQueensland
EthnicityMbabaram
Extinct1972, with the death of Albert Bennett
Language codes
ISO 639-3vmb
Glottologmbab1239
AIATSISY115
ELPMbabaram
Traditional lands of the Aboriginal peoples around Cairns; Mbabaram in   cyan.

Mbabaram (Barbaram) is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of north Queensland, traditionally spoken by the Mbabaram people. R. M. W. Dixon described his hunt for a native speaker of Mbabaram in his book Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker. Most of what is known of the language is from Dixon's field research with speaker Albert Bennett.

Recordings are held in the audio collection of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

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