Mayi-Kutuna language

Not to be confused with Badimaya language or Maya language (Australia).

Mayi-Kutuna, also spelt Mayaguduna, Maikudunu and other variants, is an extinct Mayabic language once spoken by the Mayi-Kutuna, an Aboriginal Australian people of the present-day Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia.^[2]

Mayi-Kutuna
Mayaguduna
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Maikudunu, ?Marrago
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Mayabic Mayi-Kutuna
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xmy
Glottolog	maya1280
AIATSIS[1]	G24
ELP	Mayi-Kutuna

Gavan Breen (1981) thought that the Marrago might have been a sub-group of the Mayi Kutuna people; Paul Memmott (1994) lists the Marrago language separately but gives no further detail. Their status is unconfirmed by the AIATSIS collection.^[3]