Barrow Point language
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| Barrow Point | |
|---|---|
| Mutumui | |
| Eibole | |
| Region | Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mutumui |
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bpt |
| Glottolog | barr1247 |
| AIATSIS[1] | Y63.1 |
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The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.[3]
Classification
[edit | edit source]The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.[4]
Phonology
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Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.[5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Y63.1 Barrow Point at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
- ^ Barrow Point language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- John Haviland and Roger Hart's Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)., a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.
