| Kuku-Thaypan | |
|---|---|
| Awu Alaya | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula,Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Kuku Thaypan,Gugu Rarmul |
| Extinct | 29 July 2016, with the death ofTommy George[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | typ |
| Glottolog | thay1248 |
| AIATSIS[2] | Y84 Kuku Thaypan,Y71 Gugu Rarmul |
| ELP | Awu Laya |
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Kuku-Thaypan is an extinctPaman language spoken on the southwestern part of theCape York Peninsula,Queensland inAustralia, by theKuku-Thaypan people. The language was sometimes calledAlaya orAwu Alaya.[3] Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect,[4] though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages.[5] The last native speaker,Tommy George, died on 29 July 2016 inCooktown Hospital.[6]
Kuku-Thaypan has sixvowels and two marginal vowels possibly only in loan words.[7]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | o | |
| (ɔ) | |||
| Open | (æ) | a |
Kuku-Thaypan has 23consonants.[7]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | k | t̪ | c | t | |
| prenasal | ᵐb | ᵑɡ | ⁿ̪d̪ | ᶮɟ | ⁿd | ||
| Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | ||||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | n̪ | ɲ | n | ||
| Rhotic | r | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ɻ | ||||
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