Barrow Point language
| Barrow Point | |
|---|---|
| Mutumui | |
| Eibole | |
| Region | Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mutumui |
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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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 a recently extinct
Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.[3]
Classification
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.[4]
Phonology
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
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