Barrow Point language
| 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 |
| ELP | Barrow Point |
The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.[3]
Classification
[edit]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]- ^ 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)
- ^ "Mutumui (QLD)". www.samuseum.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Dixon, R. M. W.; Dixon, Robert M. W.; Dixon, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Centre R. M. W. (14 November 2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521473781.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780.
Further reading
[edit]- John Haviland and Roger Hart's Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point, ISBN 1-56098-928-9, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.
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