Alngith dialect

Alngith
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aid
Glottolog alng1239[1]
AIATSIS[2] Y32

Alngith is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Alngith people. Its date of extinction is unknown.[3] Phonologically, this language variety is very similar to the related variety Linngithigh, the only difference being that this language has the process of metathesis whereas Linngithigh does not.[4]

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Alngith". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Alngith at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Ethnologue
  4. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12-13
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