Gkuthaarn language

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Gkuthaarn
Kuthant
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Gkuthaarn
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xut
Glottolog kuth1240 [1]
AIATSIS [2] G31

Gkuthaarn, also rendered Kuthant, Kutanda and other variant spellings, is an extinct Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. It also known as Karundi/Garandi (and variant spellings), but the Garandi language may be a separate dialect.

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Norman Tindale also assigned the name Kareldi, but this is not confirmed by others. [3] Current sources refer to the Gkuthaarn people. [4] [5]

Alternative names

Tindale

However, according to Lauriston Sharp, Kotanda was also used for the now extinct Kalibamu, and Karandi/Garandi (AUSTLANG G32) was a different local group, [3] and AIATSIS agrees. [6]

Other variants

Other variant spellings included in AUSTLANG are: [3]

Phonology

Consonants

BilabialDentalAlveolarRetroflexPalatalVelar
Stoppt(ʈ)ck
Nasalmnɳɲŋ
Fricativeɣ
Trillr
Flapɾɻ~ɽ
Approximantwj
Laterallɭ

[ʈ] is attested only in the sequence [ɳʈ] and in Kukatj loans.

Vowels

FrontFront roundedCentralBack
Non-lowi iːø øːɨ ɨːu uː
Lowa aː

Kuthant has two diphthongs: /ia/ and /ua/.


Some words

According to W.E. Armit, inspector of Native Police, these were some words of the "Karrandee tribe": [7]

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuthant". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. G31 Gkuthaarn at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 G31 Ghutkaarn at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. "Gkuthaarn Kukatj Indigenous Land & Sea Ranger". Carpentaria Land Council Aboriginal Corporation. September 2020. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  5. Barry, Derek (30 September 2020). "Native title win for Gkuthaarn and Kukatj people". The North West Star. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  6. G32 Garandi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  7. Armit, W. E. (1886). "Mouth of the Norman" (PDF). In Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (ed.). The Australian race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia and the routes by which it spread itself over the continent. Volume 2. Melbourne: J. Ferres. pp. 306–309.

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