Yabula-Yabula (Jabulajabula) in an extinct language of Australia, located in Victoria and New South Wales. Dixon listed it an isolate, but Glottolog evaluates it as a dialect of Yotayota.Heather Bowe and Stephen Morey. 1999. The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) Language of the Murray Goulborn including Yabula Yabula. (Pacific Linguistics: Series C, 154.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. It shares only 44% of its vocabulary with Yorta Yorta, so is best considered a separate language. This may be due to the rapid lexical change involved after a person's death, as their name then cannot be uttered.
Phonology
Consonants The consonants of Yabula-Yabula are likely the same as those in Yorta-Yorta, based on analysis of wordlists. LabialDentalAlveolarPalatalRetroflexVelarStopbd̪dɟ(ɖ )ɡNasalmn̪nɲ(ɳ )ŋLaterall(ʎ)(ɭ )Rhoticɾ~r(ɽ)Approximantwj
Vowels Vowels in Yabula-Yabula were likely also identical to those in Yorta-Yorta. FrontCentralBackCloseiuMideoOpena is the rarest vowel. There are no vowel-initial words in Yabula-Yabula, but there are some in Yorta-Yorta, due to the deletion of or sometimes before .
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