Atampaya dialect

Atampaya is an inland dialect of the Urradhi group of Paman languages on Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. Australia, and is possibly extinct. It is spoken by the Atampaya people. It forms part of a group of closely related and highly mutually intelligible dialects, these being Urradhi on the coast to the south-west, Angkamuthi to the west north of Urradhi, Utudhanamu inland north from Atampaya, Yantaykenu further north, being the language of the Bamaga area, Yadhaykenu on the east coast north of Wudhadhi, and Yaraytyana further north again. This group has no common language name, though Urradhi is commonly used as a cover name. There are a few partial speakers of Atampaya.

The Urradhi dialects are closely related to the Gudang language (Pantyinamu/Yatay/Gudang/Kartalaiga and other clan names), formerly spoken on the tip of Cape York (see Djagaraga).

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