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 [1]
AIATSIS [2] G24

Mayi-Kutuna (Mayaguduna) is an extinct Mayabic language once spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.

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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mayaguduna". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. G24 Mayi-Kutuna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies