Mayi-Kulan language

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Mayi-Kulan
Maykulan
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Maikulan, Maithakari, Maijabi
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
  • Mayi-Kulan
  • Mayi-Thakurti
  • Mayi-Yapi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
xyk   Mayi-Kulan (Wunumara)
xyt   Mayi-Thakurti
xyj   Mayi-Yapi
Glottolog mayk1239
AIATSIS [1] G25  Mayi-Kulan, G16  Mayi-Thakurti, G20  Mayi-Yapi
ELP Mayi-Kulan
  Mayi-Thakurti [2]
  Mayi-Yapi [3]

Mayi-Kulan is an extinct Mayi language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.

Contents

Mayi-Kulan and its dialects may be dialects of Ngawun/Wunumara.

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Dental Alveolo-
palatal
Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive pkt̠ʲtʈ
Nasal mŋn̠ʲnɳ
Rhotic ɾ
Lateral l̠ʲlɭ
Approximant wjɻ

Vowels

Front Back
Close i, iːu, uː
Open a, aː

Vocabulary

Below is a basic vocabulary list from Blake (1981). [5]

EnglishMayi-Yabi
manpantyil
womanpanya
motheryakura
fathermutyu
headngankul
eyemili
nosekunyin
earpinar
mouthyatyin
tonguengulan
toothyatyayin
handmalaru
breastṯampu
stomachngapurra
urinekipara
faeceswaṉṯu
thighṯarru
foottyana
boneṯimul
bloodkapul
dogyampi
snaketyinyur
kangaroomatyumpa
possumkakuny
fishpalpi
spiderkupu
mosquitowungkuny
emutyungkupari
eaglehawkkurriṯala
crowwaya
sunmaṉṯara
moonkukara
startyinpi
stonemirnti
waterkamu
campmakiya
fireyangu
smokekumiri
foodmaṉṯa
meatkaṯi
standṯari
sityini
seeṉama
gowapi
getmantyi
hitpuntyi
Ingayu
youyuntu
onekuruny
twopulakara

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References

  1. G25 Mayi-Kulan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies   (see the info box for additional links)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Mayi-Thakurti.
  3. Endangered Languages Project data for Mayi-Yapi.
  4. Breen, Gavan (1981). The Mayi languages of the Queensland Gulf Country. Canberra: AIAS. pp. 21–31.
  5. Blake, Barry J. (1981). Australian Aboriginal languages: a general introduction. London: Angus & Robertson Publishers. ISBN   0-207-14044-8.