Mayi-Kutuna language

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Mayi-Kutuna
Mayaguduna
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Maikudunu, ?Marrago
Extinct (date missing)
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xmy
Glottolog maya1280
AIATSIS [1] G24
ELP Mayi-Kutuna

Mayi-Kutuna, also spelt Mayaguduna, Maikudunu and other variants, is an extinct Mayabic language once spoken by the Mayi-Kutuna, an Aboriginal Australian people of the present-day Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia. [2]

Gavan Breen (1981) thought that the Marrago might have been a sub-group of the Mayi Kutuna people; Paul Memmott (1994) lists the Marrago language separately but gives no further detail. Their status is unconfirmed by the AIATSIS collection. [3]

References

  1. ↑ G24 Mayi-Kutuna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ↑ G24 Mayi-Kutana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ↑ G45 Marrago at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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