Guwa language

Guwa, also spelt Goa, Koa, and other variants, is an extinct and nearly unattested Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland spoken by the Koa people. It was apparently close to Yanda.^[3]

Guwa
Goa
Native to	Australia
Region	"Karna–Mari fringe", Queensland
Ethnicity	Koa people
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan (unclassified, possibly Maric)[1][2] Guwa–Yanda Guwa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xgw
Glottolog	guwa1242
AIATSIS[3]	G9.1
ELP	Guwa

Phonology

Consonants

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Labial	Velar	Dental	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Plosive	p	k	t̪	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	n̪	ɲ	n	ɳ
Rhotic					ɾ ~ r
Lateral			(l̪)	ʎ	l	(ɭ)
Approximant	w			j		ɻ

• Lateral sounds [l̪, ɭ] may have also been attested.

Vowels

Vowels are a three-vowel system /i, a, u/.^[4]

References

1. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxiii
2. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
3. G9.1 Guwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
4. Blake, Barry J.; Breen, Gavan (1990). Guwa. In Gavan Breen (ed.), Salvage studies of Western Queensland Aboriginal languages: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 108–144.