Extinct Australian Aboriginal language
Ayabadhu |
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Native to | Australia |
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Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland; north of Coleman River, south of Coen. |
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Ethnicity | Ayapathu, Yintyingka |
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Extinct | (date missing) |
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ISO 639-3 | ayd |
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Glottolog | ayab1239 |
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AIATSIS[1] | Y60 |
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ELP | Ayapathu |
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Ayabadhu (Ayapathu), or Badhu, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of the Paman family spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of North Queensland, Australia by the Ayapathu people.[1][2]: 17 The Ayabadhu language region includes the Cook Shire and the areas around Coen and Port Stewart.[3]
Verstraete and Rigsby (2015) determined that Ayabadhu and Yintyingka, spoken by the Yintyingka and Lamalama and previously known as coastal Ayapathu, are closely related and dialects of the same language.[2]: 51 They also found these dialects to be "structurally different" to Western Ayapathu.[4] The name Yintjinggu/Jintjingga has been used for both Ayabadhu and the neighboring Umbindhamu language.[1][5]
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
- Consonants may show gemination [Cː] when in intervocalic position after a stressed initial-syllable with a short vowel.
- Voicing among stops may be heard as [b, ɡ, d̪, ɟ, d] when following nasal sounds, or within the onset of a third syllable in trisyllablic words.
- /t/ may also have a trilled allophone [tʳ] within the onset of a second syllable.
- /w/ may also be heard as a fricative [β] or an approximant [β̞] within intervocalic positions.[6]
Vocabulary
Some words from the Ayabadhu language, as spelt and written by Ayabadhu authors include:[3]
- 'Agu: land
- 'Eka: head
- Kaleny: uncle
- Kangka: leaf
- Ko'on: magpie goose
- Kuche: two
- Mayi: food
- Punga: sun
- Wanthi punga: good day
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