Flinders Island language

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Flinders Island
Native to Australia
Region Flinders Island, Queensland
Ethnicity Aba Yalgayi
Extinct c.2000
Language codes
ISO 639-3 fln
Glottolog flin1247
AIATSIS [2] Y67
ELP Flinders Island

The Flinders Island language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Flinders Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is unconfirmed as a distinct language. The inhabitants of the island were the Aba Yalgayi. [2] There were 3 speakers reported in 1981. [3]

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One of the last known speakers of the language was Johnny Flinders. [4]

Names

The name Biyalgeyi have been used, but there is no evidence it refers to a language. Yalgawarra is a clan name. [2]

Notes

    Citations

    1. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
    2. 1 2 3 Y67 Flinders Island at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    3. Tryon, Darrell (2007), "Australasia and the Pacific", in Moseley, Christopher; Asher, R. E. (eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (2nd ed.), London: Routledge, pp. 97–126, ISBN   978-0-415-31074-1 , retrieved 27 December 2024
    4. Langton 2012, p. 179.

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