Mpalitjanh dialect
Appearance
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Mpalityan | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Winduwinda |
Extinct | By the 1960s[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xpj Mpalitjanh |
Glottolog | mpal1238 |
AIATSIS[2] | Y25 |
Mpalityan (Mpalitjanh) is an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It and Luthigh are dialects of a single language.[3]
Phonology
[edit]Consonant Phonemes
[edit]Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | |
Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t |
Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | ||
Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n |
Vibrant | r | ||||
Approximant | w | j | l |
Vowel Phonemes
[edit]Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Low | æ | a |
References
[edit]- ^ Mpalityan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Y25 Mpalityan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxi
- ^ Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
- ^ Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10