https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Barrow_Point_Language_%28bpt%29 2026-10-17T12:12:23Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.1 https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Barrow_Point_Language_(bpt)&diff=35746&oldid=prev 2009-08-13T17:02:54Z

<p>New page: &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt; The Barrow Point language is a moribund Australian Aborig...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> The Barrow Point language is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. According to Ethnologue, there was one speaker left in 1981.<br /> Ethnologue (2005) classifies Barrow Point together with Guugu Yimidhirr as a branch of Pama-Nyungan.<br /> Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point has at least two fricative phonemes, /ð/ and /ɣ/. They usually developed from *t̪ and *k, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.<br /> See also John Haviland and Roger Hart&#039;s Old Man Fog and the Last Aborigines of Barrow Point, ISBN 1-56098-928-9, a novel about the efforts of Hart, a native of the Cape York peninsula, to record and preserve Barrow Point language and culture.&lt;i&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5269722 ..... full article at Wikipedia]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Location of Barrow Point Language Speakers&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> http://llmap.org/languages/bpt/static_map.png?width=400&amp;height=300&amp;kilroywashere=.png<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=right&gt; <br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Country: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/australia Australia]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spoken In: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Regions: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania] <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISO 639-3 Code: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;bpt&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Classification Taxonomy&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> [[All Languages]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Australian Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Pama-Nyungan Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Barrow Point Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;[[Barrow Point Language]]&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> <br /> __NOTOC__</div>

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