Gugu Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers
 0 (2016)[1]
Dialects
  • Koko-Rarmul
Language codes
ISO 639-3 typ
Glottolog thay1248[2]
AIATSIS[3] Y84 Kuku Thaypan, Y71 Gugu Rarmul

Kuku-Thaypan was a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Kuku-Thaypan people. Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect,[4] though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages.[5] The last native speaker, Tommy George, died 29 July 2016 in Cooktown Hospital.[6]

Phonology

Vowels

Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marignal vowels possibly only in loan words.[7]

Consonants

Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants

References

  1. ↑ A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Thaypan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Kuku Thaypan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
  4. ↑ RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
  5. ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
  6. ↑ A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
  7. ↑ Rigsby, Bruce (1976). "Kuku-Thaypan descriptive and historical phonology". In Sutton, P. Languages of Cape York. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. pp. 68–77.

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