Gugu Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct 2016[1]
Dialects
  • Koko-Rarmul
Language codes
ISO 639-3 typ
Glottolog thay1248[2]
AIATSIS[3] Y84 Kuku Thaypan, Y71 Gugu Rarmul

Kuku-Thaypan was a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Kuku-Thaypan people. The language was sometimes called Alaya or Awu Alaya.[4] Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect,[5] though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages.[6] The last native speaker, Tommy George, died 29 July 2016 in Cooktown Hospital.[7]

Phonology

Vowels

Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marignal vowels possibly only in loan words.[8]

Consonants

Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants.

References

  1. A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Thaypan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Kuku Thaypan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Diane Hafner, Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country (ISBN 902726760X, 2016)
  5. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  6. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  7. A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
  8. 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.


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