Charlie Mungulda

Charlie Mungulda of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, is the last native speaker of the Amurdak language in 2007.[1][2][3]

Mungulda collaborated on a paper entitled "Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia" published in May 2020,[4] and another in April 2026 titled "The Devil Is in the Detail: Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian Tiger Paintings From Awunbarna and Injalak Hill, Northern Territory, Australia".[5] As of March 2021, Mungulda's death has not been reported, despite there being no recorded speakers in 2021 of Amurdag.[6] He is affiliated with Davidson's Arnhemland Safaris.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Scientists Race Around World to Save Dying Languages". Fox News. Associated Press. 20 September 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
  2. ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Schmid, Randolph E. (19 September 2007). "As languages die away, so do pieces of history". The Seattle Times.
  4. ↑ May, Sally K.; Taylor, Luke; Frieman, Catherine; Taçon, Paul S.C.; Wesley, Daryl; Jones, Tristen; Goldhahn, Joakim; Mungulda, Charlie (1 August 2020). "Survival, social cohesion and rock art: the painted hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia". Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 30 (3) (published 1 May 2020): 491–510. doi:10.1017/S0959774320000104. hdl:2440/134685. ISSN 0959-7743. Retrieved 14 March 2021. PDF
  5. 1 2 Taçon, Paul S. C.; Jalandoni, Andrea; May, Sally K.; Nganjmirra, Joey; Mungulda, Charlie (April 2026). "The Devil Is in the Detail: Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian Tiger Paintings From Awunbarna and Injalak Hill, Northern Territory, Australia". Archaeology in Oceania. 61 (1): 237–252. doi:10.1002/arco.70024. ISSN 0728-4896.
  6. ↑ "Language Hotspots". Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. Retrieved 14 March 2021.


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