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.[3]

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

Mayi-Kutuna
Mayaguduna
Native toAustralia
RegionCape York Peninsula, Queensland
EthnicityMaikudunu, ?Marrago
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3xmy
Glottologmaya1280
AIATSIS[1]G24
ELPMayi-Kutuna[2]

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.[4]

References
  1. G24 Mayi-Kutuna at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Mayi-Kutuna.
  3. G24 Mayi-Kutana at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. G45 Marrago at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


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