3-835: Kuku-Thaypan is an extinct Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula , Queensland in Australia , by the Kuku-Thaypan people . The language was sometimes called Alaya or Awu Alaya . Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect, though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages. The last native speaker, Tommy George , died on 29 July 2016 in Cooktown Hospital. Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marginal vowels possibly only in loan words. Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants . This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article
6-478: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Paman languages The Paman / ˈ p æ m ən / languages are an Australian language family spoken on Cape York Peninsula , Queensland . First noted by Kenneth Hale , Paman is noteworthy for the profound phonological changes which have affected some of its descendants. Various classifications of the Paman languages exist. The one outlined below
9-453: Is that of R. M. W. Dixon , though he does not accept that these branches are necessarily related to each other. Geographically, running down the east coast, they are: Down the west coast, they are: In the interior, south of Wik, they are: The name Gugu Mini means 'good speech', and has been applied to several languages in the Thaypan area. 'Possum language' (Koko-Possum, Gugu Yawa)
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