Uradhi language

Uradhi
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
Yadhaikenu/Yaraitjenu/Yadhaigana
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
urf  Uradhi
amz  Atampaya
avm  Angkamuthi
yxm  Yinwum
Glottolog urad1238  (Uradhic)[1]
wuth1237  (Wuthathi)[2]
yinw1236  (Yinwum)[3]
AIATSIS[4] Y184*

Urradhi is a Paman language of the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, and is apparently extinct. It was spoken by the Urradhi people. Urradhi proper is the south-western dialect of the language. The name is composed of urra "this" and the proprietive dhi "having". The south-eastern dialect of the same language, Wudhadhi, is made of the same elements, wudha being "this". These are part of a group of closely related and highly mutually intelligible dialects, these being Angkamuthi to the north of Urradhi, Atampaya inland from these, Utudhanamu inland north from Atampaya, Yantaykenu further north, being the language of the Bamaga area, Yadhaykenu on the east coast north of Wudhadhi, and Yaraytyana further north again. (Adyinuri/Itinadyana may have been another.) This group has no common language name, though Urradhi is commonly used as a cover name. It is unknown when it became extinct.[5]

The Urradhi dialects are closely related to the Gudang language (Pantyinamu/Yatay/Gudang/Kartalaiga and other clan names), formerly spoken on the tip of Cape York.

Phonology

Vowels

Uradhi has four vowels:

Front Back
Unrounded Rounded
Close i u
Mid e
Open a

Consonants

Uradhi has 18 consonants:

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive p k c t
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n
Fricative β ɣ ð
Trill r
Approximant w j l ɻ

References

Notes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Uradhic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Wuthathi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yinwum". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Uradhi at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  5. SIL International

General

Crowley, T. (1983). "Uradhi". Handbook of Australian languages 3. pp. 306–428. 
Hale, Kenneth L. (1976). "Phonological developments in a Northern Paman language: Uradhi". Languages of Cape York. pp. 41–49. 


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