Mpalityan (Mpalitjanh) is an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It and Luthigh are dialects of a single language.[3]
Mpalityan | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Winduwinda |
Extinct | By the 1960s[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xpj Mpalitjanh |
Glottolog | mpal1238 |
AIATSIS[2] | Y25 |
Phonology
Consonant Phonemes
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | |
Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t |
Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | ||
Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n |
Vibrant | r | ||||
Approximant | w | j | l |
Vowel Phonemes
References
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