Yinwum dialect

Yinwum
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Njuwadhai?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yxm
Glottolog yinw1236[1]
AIATSIS[2] Y29

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.

Phonology

Consonant Phonemes

[4]

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n
Prenasalised stop ⁿp ⁿk ⁿc ⁿt̪ ⁿt   ⁿtʳ
Plosive p k c t  
Fricative β ɣ ð
Vibrant r
Approximant w j l ɻ

/ⁿtʳ/ and /tʳ/ are post-trilled consonants (trilled affricates).

Vowel Phonemes

[5]

Front Back
High i u
Mid e
Low a

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yinwum". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Yinwum at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen".
  4. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12
  5. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12


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