Kuku-Thaypan language

Kuku-Thaypan language

Infobox Language
name=Kuku-Thaypan
region=Queensland, Australia
speakers=2 (1981)
iso2=aus
iso3=typ
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Pama-Nyungan

Kuku-Thaypan or simply Thaypan is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language.

Classification

Kuku-Thaypan is probably a single language with Koko-Rarmul.

Kuku-Thaypan is closely related to the dialects of Aghu Tharrnggala, Koko-Possum/Alngula, Ikarrangal, and Kuku-Mini—most or all of which are probably mutually intelligible with each other. They may be further related to Takalak, but there is insufficient information on that language for a definitive classification.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

The fricatives IPA|/β ɣ/ are realized as stops IPA| [b ɡ] after IPA|/n/.

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 |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780
*cite book |last=Rigsby |first=Bruce |editor=Sutton, P. |title=Languages of Cape York |year=1976 |publisher=Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies |location=Canberra |pages=68–77 |chapter=Kuku-Thaypan descriptive and historical phonology

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=typ Ethnologue report for language code:typ]


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