Charlie Mungulda

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}{{short description|Last speaker of the Amurdag language}}

{{use Australian English|date=March 2021}}

Charlie Mungulda of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia, was the last native speaker of the Amurdak language in 2007.{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/scientists-race-around-world-to-save-dying-languages|title=Scientists Race Around World to Save Dying Languages|date=2007-09-20|agency=Associated Press|publisher=Fox News|access-date=2009-06-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005212328/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297260,00.html|archive-date=2007-10-05|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ABS_C16_T09_SA|title=Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)|website=stat.data.abs.gov.au|access-date=2019-02-14|archive-date=26 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226044803/http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ABS_C16_T09_SA|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/as-languages-die-away-so-do-pieces-of-history/| website=The Seattle Times|title=As languages die away, so do pieces of history|date= 19 September 2007 |first=Randolph E. | last=Schmid}}

Mungulda collaborated on a paper entitled "Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia" published in May 2020.{{cite journal | last1=May | first1=Sally K. | last2=Taylor | first2=Luke | last3=Frieman | first3=Catherine | last4=Taçon | first4=Paul S.C. | last5=Wesley | first5=Daryl | last6=Jones | first6=Tristen | last7=Goldhahn | first7=Joakim | last8=Mungulda | first8=Charlie | title=Survival, social cohesion and rock art: the painted hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia | journal=Cambridge Archaeological Journal | volume=30 | issue=3 | date=1 August 2020 | issn=0959-7743 | doi=10.1017/S0959774320000104 | pages=491–510 | url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/survival-social-cohesion-and-rock-art-the-painted-hands-of-wester | access-date=14 March 2021|publication-date=1 May 2020| doi-access=free | hdl=2440/134685 | hdl-access=free }} [https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/209285/1/01_May_Survival%252C_Social_Cohesion_and_2020.pdf PDF] {{as of|March 2021}}, Mungulda's death has not been reported, despite there being no recorded speakers in 2021 of Amurdag.{{cite web | title=Language Hotspots | website=Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages | url=https://livingtongues.org/language-hotspots/ | access-date=14 March 2021}}