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Barrow Point language
The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.
Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.
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Barrow Point language
The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.
Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.