Yinwum dialect

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Yinwum
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Yinwum, ?Nyuwathayi
Extinct By 1960s [1]
Dialects
  • Njuwadhai?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yxm
Glottolog yinw1236
AIATSIS [2] Y29

Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct. [3] Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.

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Phonology

Consonants

Consonants of Yinwum [4]
Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Nasal mŋɲn
Prenasalised stop ⁿpⁿkⁿcⁿt̪ⁿt   ⁿtʳ
Plosive pkct  
Fricative βɣð
Vibrant r
Approximant wjlɻ

/ⁿtʳ/ and /tʳ/ are post-trilled consonants (trilled affricates).

Vowels

Vowels of Yinwum [4]
Front Back
High iu
Mid e
Low a

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References

  1. Yinwum at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Y29 Yinwum at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. 1 2 Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12