Barrow Point language
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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.[1]
Classification
The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.[2]
Phonology
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References
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Further reading
- John Haviland and Roger Hart's Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point, Template:ISBN, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.