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Wambaya
Spoken in:	Barkly Tablelands, Northern Territory, Australia
Total speakers:	6
Language family:	}}
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`aus`
ISO 639-3:	`wmb`

Wambaya is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Wambaya people of the Barkly Tablelands region of the Northern Territory. It is no longer in general use, known today only by half a dozen elderly people.

References

Nordlinger, R (1998). A Grammar of Wambaya, Northern Territory (Australia). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Nordlinger, R. (April 2006). "Spearing the Emu Drinking: Subordination and the Adjoined Relative Clause in Wambaya". Australian Journal of Linguistics 26 (1): 5–29.

Barkly Tableland is an area located in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Nathaniel Buchanan was the first European to explore the region. He was searching for pastoral lands.

The area's major towns include Tennant Creek and Renner Springs.
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Northern Territory

Flag Coat of Arms
Slogan or Nickname: The Territory, The NT, The Top End
Motto(s): none

Other Australian states and territories
Capital Darwin
Government Constitutional monarchy
Administrator Ted Egan
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Anthem
Advance Australia Fair ^[1]

Capital Canberra

Largest city Sydney
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A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language. As with biological families, the evidence of relationship is observable shared characteristics.
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writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language.

General properties

Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the
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Latin alphabet
Child systems Numerous: see Alphabets derived from the Latin
Sister systems Cyrillic
Coptic
Armenian
Runic/Futhark
Unicode range See Latin characters in Unicode
ISO 15924 Latn

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ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. It consists of 136 two-letter codes used to identify the world's major languages. These codes are a useful international shorthand for indicating languages.
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ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. The three-letter codes given for each language in this part of the standard are referred to as "Alpha-3" codes. There are 464 language codes in the list.
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ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. It extends the ISO 639-2 alpha-3 codes with an aim to cover all known natural languages. The standard was published by ISO on 5 February 2007^[1].
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Indigenous Australian languages comprise several language families and isolates native to Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding Tasmania. The relationships between these languages are not clear at present, although substantial progress has been made in
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