Yabula-Yabula (Jabulajabula) in an extinct language of
Australia
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, located in
Victoria
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and
New South Wales
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. 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 due to the rapid lexical change involved after a person's death, as their name cannot be uttered.
Phonology
Consonants
The consonants of Yabula-Yabula are likely the same as those in Yorta-Yorta, based on analysis of wordlists.
Vowels
Vowels in Yabula-Yabula were likely also identical to those in Yorta-Yorta.
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 .
References
Yotayotic languages
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