Yaren Umpila

**Umpila**, wanda kuma aka sani da Ompeila, Ompela, Oom-billa, ko Koko-umpilo, yaren Aboriginal ne na ƙasar Australiya, ko gungu yare, na tsibirin Cape York a arewacin Queensland.  An yi magana da kusan ’yan asalin 100, yawancinsu tsofaffi. 

## Rarraba yanki
Yankin ƙasar da ke da alaƙa da rukunin yaren Umpila yana kusa da bakin tekun arewa maso gabashin Cape York Peninsula sannan kuma ya shimfiɗa daga arewacin ƙarshen Temple Bay kudu zuwa yankin Massey Creek a saman Gimbiya Charlotte Bay, da yammacin Babban Rarraba Range zuwa garin Coen. Yawancin sauran masu magana da Umpila da Kuuku Ya'u suna zaune ne a yankin Aboriginal na Kogin Lockhart, wanda ke a Lloyd Bay, kusa da iyaka tsakanin filayen Umpila da Kuuku Ya'u.

## Iri
Manyan nau'ikan Umpila, waɗanda aka yi la'akari daban-daban yaruka ko yaruka daban-daban, sune kamar haka

* **Umpila** daidai
* **Kanju** (Kandju, Kaantyu, Gandju, Gandanju, Kamdhue, Kandyu, Kanyu, Karnu), also *Jabuda, Neogulada, Yaldiye-Ho*
* **Kuuku-Yaʼu** (Yaʼo, Koko-Jaʼo, Kokoyao), ma *Bagadji (Pakadji)*
* **Kuuku Yani** (extinct)
* **Ƙarshen** (bacewa)
* **Kuuku Iʼyu** (bace) 

## Fassarar sauti

* /c/ kuma ana iya kiransa da [ɟ]. 

## Nahawu
A haƙiƙa, Umpila harshe ne na ƙaranci, ƙarami, yare mai dogaro, tare da zaɓi don tsari na Maudu'i-Abin-Verb. Alamun nahawu ana kuma nuna su ta hanyar rarrabuwar tsarin shari'a: ɓangarorin ƙima suna da ƙima/ cikakkiya, pronominal na ƙididdigewa/ zargi. Siffofin bayanin kula sun haɗa da: faɗuwar tarihi na baƙaƙe na farko, haɗaɗɗen maimaita magana da ke bayyana ci gaba da yanayin al'ada, alamar 'na zaɓi'. 

## Harshen alamar
Umpila suna da (ko suna da) ingantaccen ingantaccen sigar sa hannu na harshensu.  Yana ɗaya daga cikin abubuwan farko na Harshen Alamun Inan Asalin Far North Queensland .

## Duba kuma

* Maganar gujewa

## Littafi Mai Tsarki

* Kashe, AK shekarar 1979. Ci gaba da Al'adu: Ƙasa da Albarkatu tsakanin Aborigine na Gabashin Cape York. A cikin Stevens, NC da Bailey, A. (eds). Tsibirin Cape York na zamani. Canberra: Cibiyar Nazarin Aboriginal ta Australiya.
* Kashe, AK 1980. Yanzu wace hanya? Al'ada, ci gaba da canji a cikin al'ummar Aboriginal ta arewa ta Queensland. Ƙididdigar PhD ba a buga ba. Brisbane: Jami'ar Queensland.
* Kashe, AK 1984. Kasancewa na Ƙasa: Yanki, Identity da Muhalli a cikin Tsibirin Cape York, Arewacin Ostiraliya. A cikin LR Hiatt (ed) Masu mallakar ƙasa na Aboriginal: Abubuwan da suka shafi zamani a cikin ƙayyadaddun ikon mallakar ƙasar Aborigin na gargajiya. Sydney: Jami'ar Jami'ar Sydney.
* Rigsby, B. da Chase, A. 1998. Mutanen Sandbeach da Dugong Hunters na Gabashin Cape York Peninsula: dukiya a Ƙasar Ƙasa da Teku. Rigsby, B da Peterson, N. (eds) Tsarin Ruwa na Al'ada a Ostiraliya. Sydney. Oceania 48: 192-218.
* Thompson, DA 1976. A phonology na Kuuku-Ya'u. A cikin Sutton, P. (ed.), Harsuna na Cape York, 213-235. Canberra: Cibiyar Nazarin Aboriginal ta Australiya.
* Thompson, D. 1988. Harshen Kogin Lockhart 'Sand Beach': Bayanin Kuuku Ya'u da Umpila. Darwin: Cibiyar Nazarin Harsunan bazara.
* Thomson, DF 1933. The Hero Cult, Initiation Totemism akan Cape York. Jaridar Royal Anthropological Institute Journal 63: 453-537.
* Thomson, DF 1934. Bayanan kula akan Al'adun Jarumi daga Tekun Carpentaria, Arewacin Queensland. Jaridar Royal Anthropological Institute Journal 64: 217-262.

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