# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carmel-charles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:17:19.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carmel-charles"
name: "Carmel Charles"
slug: "carmel-charles"
description: "Mary Carmel Charles was an author and the last fluent speaker of the Nyulnyul language of Western Australia. She was born to the Nyulnyul tribe in the Kimberley region of Western Australia at the Beagle Bay Mission. She played an important part in the documentation of the language and the writing of a Nyulnyul grammar, despite the fact that she was deaf."
tagline: "Writer, Last fluent speaker of Nyulnyul (1912–1999)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1912-07-15"
deathDate: "1999"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.76
  momentum:             15.57377049180328
  historical:           5.471310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Charles"
    title: "Carmel Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%84_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "كارمل تشارلز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Charles"
    title: "Carmel Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Чарльз, Кармель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmel_Charles"
    title: "Carmel Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Carmel_Charles"
    title: "Mary Carmel Charles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3850452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump