Luthigh language
Luthigh | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Dialects | |
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
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | Glottal | |||
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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
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Low | æ | a |
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mpalityan-Lutigh". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Luthigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ Ernst Kausen (2005). "Australische Sprachen".
- ↑ Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
- ↑ Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.10
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