Flinders Island language

Flinders Island is an extinct Australian aboriginal language spoken off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It's unconfirmed as a distinct language. The inhabitants of the island were the Aba Yalgayi.[3]

Flinders Island
RegionFlinders Island, Queensland
EthnicityAba Yalgayi
Extinctca. 2000
Language codes
ISO 639-3fln
Glottologflin1247[2]
AIATSIS[3]Y67

One of the last known speakers of the language was Johnny Flinders.[4]

Names

The name Biyalgeyi have been used, but there is no evidence it refers to a language. Yalgawarra is a clan name.[3]

Notes

    Citations

    1. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
    2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Flinders Island". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
    3. Y67 Flinders Island at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    4. Langton 2012, p. 179.

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