Barrow Point language

Not to be confused with Point Barrow.

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.^[3]

Barrow Point
Mutumui
Eibole
Region	Queensland, Australia
Ethnicity	Mutumui
Extinct	by 2005, with the death of Urwunjin Roger Hart[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman[2] North Cape York Wik Yalanjic? Barrow Point
Dialects	Ongwara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bpt
Glottolog	barr1247
AIATSIS[1]	Y63.1
ELP	Barrow Point
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Classification

The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.^[4]

Phonology

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.^[5]