Yinwum dialect

Yinwum
Native toAustralia
RegionCape York Peninsula, Queensland
EthnicityYinwum, ?Nyuwathayi
Extinctby 1960s[1]
Dialects
  • ?Njuwadhai
Language codes
ISO 639-3yxm
Glottologyinw1236
AIATSIS[2]Y29

Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct,[3] but it was no longer spoken by the 1960s. Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.

  1. ^ Yinwum at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Y29 Yinwum at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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