Mayi-Kulan language

Mayi-Kulan is an extinct Mayi language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia.

Mayi-Kulan
Maykulan
Native toAustralia
RegionCape York Peninsula, Queensland
EthnicityMaikulan, Maithakari, Maijabi
Extinct(date missing)
Dialects
  • Mayi-Kulan
  • Mayi-Thakurti
  • Mayi-Yapi
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
xyk  Mayi-Kulan (Wunumara)
xyt  Mayi-Thakurti
xyj  Mayi-Yapi
Glottologmayk1239[1]
AIATSIS[2]G25 Mayi-Kulan, G16 Mayi-Thakurti, G20 Mayi-Yapi

Mayi-Kulan and its dialects may be dialects of Ngawun/Wunumara.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maykulan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. G25 Mayi-Kulan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)


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