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Mpalitjanh dialect

Extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Australia

Summary

Extinct Pama–Nyungan language of Australia

Field	Value
name	Mpalityan
states	Australia
region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
ethnicity	Winduwinda
extinct	by 1960s
ref	e25
familycolor	Australian
fam1	Pama–Nyungan
fam2	Paman
fam3	North Cape York
fam4	Northern
fam5	Luthigh
iso3	xpj
iso3comment	Mpalitjanh
glotto	mpal1238
glottorefname	Mpalitjanh
aiatsis	Y25
notice	IPA

Mpalityan (Mpalitjanh) is an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It and Luthigh are dialects of a single language.

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral	Laminal	Apical	Bilabial	Velar
p	k	c	t̪	t
β	ɣ		ð
ⁿp	ⁿk	ⁿc	ⁿt̪	ⁿt
m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n
			r
w	j		l

Vowels

Front	Back	High	Low
i	u
æ	a

References

RMW Dixon (2002), ''Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development'', p xxxi
Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10

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