Yinwum dialect

Yinwum
Yinwum
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Yinwum, ?Nyuwathayi
Extinct	By 1960s
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Uradhi Yinwum; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Njuwadhai?;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yxm
Glottolog	yinw1236
AIATSIS	Y29

Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct. Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.

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