Luthigh language

{{short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{Distinguish|Uradhi language}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Luthigh

| pronunciation = {{IPA|aus|lud̪uɣ|}}

| states = Australia

| region = Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

| ethnicity = Lotiga, Tepiti, ?Unjadi

| extinct = ?

| familycolor = Australian

| fam1 = Pama–Nyungan

| fam2 = Paman

| fam3 = North Cape York

| fam4 = Northern

| dia1 = Mpalitjanh

| iso3 = xpj

| iso3comment = (Mpalitjanh)

| aiatsis = Y12

| aiatsisname = Luthigh

| aiatsis2 = Y25

| aiatsisname2 = Mpalitjanh

| glotto = luth1234

| glottorefname = Luthigh

}}

Luthigh (also known as Luthig, Okara, Winduwinda, Uradhi, Teppathiggi or Ludhigh, pronounced {{IPA|aus|lud̪uɣ|}}) is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Luthigh people.{{Cite web |last=Crump |first=Desmond |date=2020-11-16 |title=Language of the Week: Week Twenty-Five - Luthigh |url=https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/language-week-week-twenty-five-luthigh |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=State Library Of Queensland |language=en}} It is unknown when it became extinct.{{cite web|url=http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/kausen/klassifikationen/Australisch.doc|author=Ernst Kausen|year=2005|title=Australische Sprachen|access-date=2024-12-24}} It constitutes a single language with Mpalitjanh. According to Sharp (1939), the neighboring Unjadi language differed only marginally from that spoken by the Okara [Luthigh].{{Cite journal

| title = Tribes and Totemism in North-East Australia

| last = Sharp | first = R. Lauriston

| author-link = Lauriston Sharp

| journal = Oceania

| volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 254–275

| date = March 1939

| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00232.x | jstor = 40327744

}}