Yirrk-Thangalkl dialect

Yirrk-Thangalkl
Yirrk-Mel
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct	(date missing)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman Southwestern Coastal Yir-Yoront Yirrk-Thangalkl
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yrm
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS[1]	Y214*

Yirrk-Thangalkl (Yir Thangedl) is a dialect of Yir-Yoront,^[2] a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Yirrk-Thangalkl people. The language is also known as Yirr-Thangell and Yirrk-Mel.

During the early 1900s (decade), Yirrk-Thangalkl speakers started shifting to the Yir-Yoront dialect with the arrival of the Mitchell River Mission.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Yirrk-Thangalkl has 16 consonants. The inventory is the same as that of Yir-Yoront, except that Yirrk-Thangalkl lacks the retroflex and glottal consonants /ʈ/, /ɳ/, /ɭ / and /ʔ/.

	Peripheral		Laminal		Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Postalveolar /Palatal	Dental	Alveolar
Nasal	m /m/	ng /ŋ/	ny /ɲ/	nh /n̪/	n /n/
Plosive	p /p/	k /k/		th /t̪/	t /t/
Affricate			ch /t͡ʃ/
Trill					rr /r/
Tap					r /ɾ/
Approximant	w /w/		y /j/	lh /l̪/	l /l/

References

1. Yirrk-Thangalkl at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
3. Alpher, Barry (1991). Yir-Yoront lexicon: Sketch and dictionary of an Australian language.