Yabula-Yabula language

Yabula-Yabula 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 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.

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Retroflex	Velar
Stop	b	d̪	d	ɟ		ɡ
Nasal	m	n̪	n	ɲ		ŋ
Lateral			l
Rhotic			ɾ~r
Approximant	w			j

Vowels

Vowels in Yabula-Yabula were likely also identical to those in Yorta-Yorta.

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

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.