Barrow Point language

Extinct Australian Aboriginal language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

RegionQueensland, Australia
EthnicityMutumui
Extinctby 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1]
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Barrow Point
Mutumui
Eibole
RegionQueensland, Australia
EthnicityMutumui
Extinctby 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1]
Dialects
  • Ongwara
Language codes
ISO 639-3bpt
Glottologbarr1247
AIATSIS[1]Y63.1
ELPBarrow Point
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Classification

The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.[4]

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.[5]

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