Yinwum dialect

Yinwum
Spoken in Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct Unknown
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 urf

Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it went extinct.[1] Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.

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