Gugu Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers	1 (2009)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman Thaypan Kuku-Thaypan
Dialects	Koko-Rarmul
Language codes
ISO 639-3	typ
Glottolog	thay1248[2]
AIATSIS[3]	Y84 Kuku Thaypan, Y71 Gugu Rarmul

Kuku-Thaypan is a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Kuku-Thaypan people. Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect,^[4] though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages.^[5] There was one speaker left in 2009.^[1]

Phonology

Vowels

Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marignal vowels possibly only in loan words.^[6]

Consonants

Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants

References

1. Michael, Peter; Natalie Gregg (19 June 2009). "Aboriginal elder the last speaker of his language". Courier Mail (News Queensland).
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Thaypan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Kuku Thaypan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
4. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
5. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
6. Rigsby, Bruce (1976). "Kuku-Thaypan descriptive and historical phonology". In Sutton, P. Languages of Cape York. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. pp. 68–77.

External links

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