Gugu Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Native speakers	0 (2016)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman Thaypan Kuku-Thaypan
Dialects	Koko-Rarmul
Language codes
ISO 639-3	typ
Glottolog	thay1248[2]
AIATSIS[3]	Y84 Kuku Thaypan, Y71 Gugu Rarmul

Kuku-Thaypan was a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula, Queensland in Australia, by the Kuku-Thaypan people. 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 29 July 2016 in Cooktown Hospital.^[6]

Phonology

Vowels

Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marignal vowels possibly only in loan words.^[7]

Consonants

Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants

References

1. A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Thaypan". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Kuku Thaypan at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies  (see the info box for additional links)
4. RMW Dixon (2002), Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development, p xxxii
5. Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
6. A "legend", Indigenous Australian Leader, Knowledge Holder Tommy George Passes On.
7. Rigsby, Bruce (1976). "Kuku-Thaypan descriptive and historical phonology". In Sutton, P. Languages of Cape York. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. pp. 68–77.

External links

• Bibliography of Kuku Thaypan people and language resources, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies