Umpila is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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Umpila, also known as Ompeila, Ompela, Oom-billa, or Koko-umpilo, is an Aboriginal Australian language, or dialect cluster, of the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland.[4] It is spoken by about 100 Aboriginal people, many of them elderly.[5]
^ abY45 Umpila at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
^Endangered Languages Project data for Kuuku-Ya'u.
^Endangered Languages Project data for Kaanju.
^Crump, Des (7 September 2020). "Language of the Week: Week Fifteen - Umpila". State Library Of Queensland. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
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