Kuthant language

Kuthant, also rendered Gkuthaarn and Kutanda, is an extinct Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

Kuthant
Kareldi
Gkuthaarn
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Kareldi
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman Norman Kuthant
Dialects	Garandi?
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xut
Glottolog	kuth1240[1]
AIATSIS[2]	G31

Garandi/Karundi may have been the same language. Both groups went by the name Kareldi.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p	t̪	t	(ʈ)	c	k
Nasal	m	n̪	n	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative						ɣ
Trill			r
Flap			ɾ	ɻ~ɽ
Approximant	w				j
Lateral			l	ɭ

[ʈ] is attested only in the sequence [ɳʈ] and in Kukatj loans.

Vowels

	Front	Front rounded	Central	Back
Non-low	i iː	ø øː	ɨ ɨː	u uː
Low			a aː

Kuthant has two diphthongs: /ia/ and /ua/.

References

1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kuthant". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2. G31 Kuthant at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
3. G32 Garandi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

External links

• Bibliography of Kuthant people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies