The Barrow Point language is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. According to Ethnologue

Ethnologue

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, there was one speaker left in 1981.

Classification

Ethnologue

Ethnologue

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language and support their efforts in language development.The Ethnologue...

 (2005) classifies Barrow Point together with Guugu Yimidhirr as a branch of Pama–Nyungan.

Phonology

Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point has at least two fricative

Fricative consonant

Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate, in the case of German , the final consonant of Bach; or...

 phoneme

Phoneme

In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....

s, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.

External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:bpt