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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. 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

1. S38 Yabula-Yabula at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. 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.
3. ^ Bowe, Heather J.; Morey, Stephen (1999). The Yorta Yorta (Bangerang) language of the Murray Goulburn: including Yabula Yabula (PDF). Pacific linguistics, Series C (in eng-aus). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-513-9. OCLC 40792250.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

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