Mayi-Kutuna language
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.
| Mayi-Kutuna | |
|---|---|
| Mayaguduna | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Maikudunu, ?Marrago |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xmy |
| Glottolog | maya1280 |
| AIATSIS | 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.
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