| Barrow Point | |
|---|---|
| Mutumui | |
| Eibole | |
| Region | Queensland,Australia |
| Ethnicity | Mutumui |
| Extinct | by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bpt |
| Glottolog | barr1247 |
| AIATSIS[1] | Y63.1 |
| ELP | Barrow Point |
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TheBarrow Point orMutumui language, calledEibole, is an extinctAustralian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.[3]
The language has onedialect in the north called Ongwara.[4]
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Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least twofricativephonemes,/ð/ and/ɣ/. They usually developed from*t̪ and*k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.[5]
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