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.
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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.
Country
AustraliaCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1912 to 1999 · aged 87
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6 languages
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