Barrow Point language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Barrow Point |
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| Mutumui Eibole |
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| Region | Queensland, Australia | |||
| Ethnicity | Mutumui | |||
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hartaiatsis | |||
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| AIATSIS | Y63.1 | |||
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The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is a recently extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.
Phonology
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.
See also
In Spanish: Idioma Barrow Point para niños
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