Yinwum dialect
Appearance
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Yinwum | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Yinwum, ?Nyuwathayi |
Extinct | By 1960s[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yxm |
Glottolog | yinw1236 |
AIATSIS[2] | Y29 |
Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct.[3] Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.
Phonology
Consonants
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | |
Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt ⁿtʳ | |
Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t tʳ | |
Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | |||
Vibrant | r | |||||
Approximant | w | j | l | ɻ |
/ⁿtʳ/ and /tʳ/ are post-trilled consonants (trilled affricates).
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Mid | e | |
Low | a |
References
- ^ Yinwum at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Y29 Yinwum at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen".
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(help) - ^ a b Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12