Gugu Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan
Spoken in Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers Unknown  (date missing)
Language family
Pama–Nyungan
  • Paman
    • Eastern
      • Thaypan
        • Kuku-Thaypan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 typ
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Kuku-Thaypan is a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Kuku-Thaypan people. Together with Koko-Rarmul it forms the group of Koko-Thaypan languages. According to Ethnologue the language may have gone extinct as of 2003,[1] but other sources say that there is at least one speaker left in 2009."Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". 

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Phonology

Vowels

Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marignal vowels possibly only in loan words.[2]

Consonants

Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants

References

  1. ^ Ethnologue
  2. ^ Rigsby, Bruce (1976). "Kuku-Thaypan descriptive and historical phonology". In Sutton, P.. Languages of Cape York. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. pp. 68–77.