Luthigh language

Luthigh
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Luthigh
Dialects	Mpalitjanh
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xpj (Mpalitjanh)
Glottolog	mpal1237[1]
AIATSIS[2]	Y12 Luthigh, Y25 Mpalitjanh

Luthigh (Lɔ:tiga; pronounced [lud̪iɣ]) is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Luthigh people. It is unknown when it became extinct.^[3] It constitutes a single language with Mpalitjanh.

Phonology

Consonant Phonemes

^[4]

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical	Glottal
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Dental	Alveolar
Plosive	p	k	c	t̪	t	ʔ
Fricatives	β	ɣ		ð
Nasals	m	ŋ	ɲ	n̪	n
Vibrant					r
Approximants	w		j		l

Vowel Phonemes

^[5]

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	æ	a

References

1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mpalityan-Lutigh". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2. Luthigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
3. Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen".
4. Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
5. Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10