- Barrow Point language
Infobox Language
name=Barrow Point language
region=Queensland ,Australia
speakers=1 (1989)
iso2=aus
iso3=bpt
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-NyunganThe Barrow Point language is a moribund
Australian Aboriginal language . According toEthnologue , there was one speaker left in 1981.Classification
Ethnologue (2005) classifies Barrow Point together with Guugu Yimidhirr as a branch of Pama-Nyungan.Phonology
Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point has at least two fricative
phoneme s, IPA|/ð/ and IPA|/ɣ/. They usually developed from IPA|*t̪ and IPA|*k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.References
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002| id=ISBN-10: 0521473780, ISBN-13: 9780521473781 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780
See also John Haviland and Roger Hart's [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3654/is_200106/ai_n8954580 Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point] , ISBN 1-56098-928-9, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bpt Ethnologue report for language code:bpt]
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