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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.<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=5269722 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Barrow Point Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="3" width=400 height=300 lat="-32.345623" lon="141.434598" type="map">
-32.345623, 141.434598, Australia</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/australia Australia]</td></tr>
 
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<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/oceania Oceania]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>bpt</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Australian Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Pama-Nyungan Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Barrow Point Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Barrow Point Language]]</b>
 
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