Mpalitjanh dialect

Mpalityan
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Winduwinda
Extinct	by 1960s [1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Luthigh Mpalityan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpj Mpalitjanh
Glottolog	mpal1238
AIATSIS [2]	Y25
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Mpalityan (Mpalitjanh) is an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It and Luthigh are dialects of a single language. ^[3]

Phonology

Consonants

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	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar
Plosive	p	k	c	t̪	t
Fricative	β	ɣ		ð
Prenasalised stop	ⁿp	ⁿk	ⁿc	ⁿt̪	ⁿt
Nasal	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n
Vibrant					r
Approximant	w		j		l

Vowels

^[5]

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	æ	a

References

1. Mpalityan at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Y25 Mpalityan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxi
4. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
5. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10