Barrow Point language
| Barrow Point | |
|---|---|
| Mutumui | |
| Eibole | |
| Region | Queensland, Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mutumui |
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bpt |
| Glottolog | barr1247 |
| AIATSIS | Y63.1 |
| ELP | Barrow Point |
The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time. The people name Ama Ambilmungu is associated with the Barrow Point language.
Name
The Eibole clan of the Mutumui resided at Barrow Point. This name was also used for the language the Mutumui spoke.
Classification
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.
History
By the early 1920s, the Barrow Point people were being attacked by the police, settlers, and commercial fishermen looking for labourers. By World War II, most of them were dead, and the survivors were scattered across Queensland living in other Aboriginal communities.
Phonology
Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.
Vocabulary
| gloss | Barrow Point |
|---|---|
| friend | anggatha |
| my friend | anggatha athu |
| story, news | yimpal |
References
- 1 2 3 Y63.1 Barrow Point at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, 23 December 2011 (corrected 6 February 2012)
- ↑ Barrow Point language at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 1 2 Hale, H. M.; Tindale, N.B. (1933). "Aborigines of Princess Charlotte Bay, North Queensland". Records of the South Australian Museum. 5 (1). Adelaide: 64–116.
- ↑ "Mutumui (QLD)". www.samuseum.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- 1 2 Haviland, John Beard (1998). Old man Fog and the last Aborigines of Barrow Point. Internet Archive. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-913-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) - ↑ Dixon, R. M. W.; Dixon, Robert M. W.; Dixon, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Centre R. M. W. (14 November 2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521473781.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521473780.
Further reading
- Haviland, John; Hart, Roger (June 2001). "Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point". Archived from the original on 26 March 2005 – via FindArticles.
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