Bpt

Description: The Barrow Point language is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. According to Ethnologue, there was one speaker left in 1981. Ethnologue (2005) classifies Barrow Point together with Guugu Yimidhirr as a branch of Pama-Nyungan. 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. See also John Haviland and Roger Hart'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...... full article at Wikipedia Location of Barrow Point Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/bpt/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png

Overview Main Country: Australia Spoken In: Regions: Oceania ISO 639-3 Code: bpt Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Australian Group     Pama-Nyungan Group       Barrow Point Group         Barrow Point Language