Barrow Point language
{{short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}
{{distinguish|Point Barrow}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Barrow Point
| altname = Mutumui
| nativename = {{lang|bpt|Eibole}}
| region = Queensland, Australia
| ethnicity = Mutumui
| extinct = by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart
| ref = aiatsis
| familycolor = Australian
| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan
| fam2 = PamanBowern, Claire. 2011. "[http://anggarrgoon.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/how-many-languages-were-spoken-in-australia/ How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?]", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 ([http://pamanyungan.sites.yale.edu/master-list-australian-languages-v12 corrected] February 6, 2012)
| fam3 = North Cape York
| fam4 = Wik
| fam5 = Yalanjic?
| iso3 = bpt
| glotto = barr1247
| glottorefname = Barrow Point
| aiatsis = Y63.1
| notice = IPA
| dia1 = Ongwara
}}
The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.{{e25|bpt}}
Classification
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.{{Cite web |title=Mutumui (QLD) |url=https://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collection/archives/language_groups/mutumui |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.samuseum.sa.gov.au}}
Phonology
{{Expand section|date=May 2008}}Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, {{IPA|/ð/}} and {{IPA|/ɣ/}}. They usually developed from {{IPA|*t̪}} and {{IPA|*k}}, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSqIBNJtG0AC&q=barrow+point&pg=PP1|title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development|last1=Dixon|first1=R. M. W.|last2=Dixon|first2=Robert M. W.|last3=Dixon|first3=Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Centre R. M. W.|date=2002-11-14|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521473781|language=en}}
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |author-link=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002|url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780|isbn=0521473780 }}
Further reading
- John Haviland and Roger Hart's [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200106/ai_n8954580 Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point], {{ISBN|1-56098-928-9}}, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.
{{Pama–Nyungan languages|Paman}}
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Category:Extinct languages of Queensland
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