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Extinct Australian Aboriginal language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mayi-Kutuna, also spelt Mayaguduna, Maikudunu and other variants, is an extinct Mayabic language once spoken by the Mayi-Kutuna, an Aboriginal Australian people of the present-day Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.[2]
Mayi-Kutuna | |
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Mayaguduna | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Maikudunu, ?Marrago |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xmy |
Glottolog | maya1280 |
AIATSIS[1] | G24 |
ELP | Mayi-Kutuna |
Gavan Breen (1981) thought that the Marrago might have been a sub-group of the Mayi Kutuna people; Paul Memmott (1994) lists the Marrago language separately but gives no further detail. Their status is unconfirmed by the AIATSIS collection.[3]
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