Mudburra

Mudburra, also known as Pinkangama, is an aboriginal language native to the Australian Northern Territory. It is particularly native to the Western area of Barkly Region, Southern area of Stuart Plateau and eastern area of Victoria River District, in Northern Territory, Australia.

It is subdivided as Eastern Mudburra dialect (also called Kuwaarrangu) and Western Mudburra dialect (also called Kuwirrinji). The alphabet of Mudburra language is written identically to the English language but is spoken differently. Mudburra has three vowels (a,i,u).

*(a) is pronounced like the vowel in ‘hard’ in the English language.

*(i) is pronounced like the vowel in ‘bitter’ in the English language.

*(u) is pronounced like the vowel in ‘soot’ of the English language.

Vowel combinations that produce different sounds are (aw, ay, iyi , uwu, uwa, uwi). The consonants produced differently than in English are; b,d,k, and j. The rest sound similar to the English Consonants.

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