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Yinwum dialect

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Native to
  
Australia

Dialects
  
Njuwadhai?

Extinct
  
(date missing)

ISO 639-3
  
yxm

Region
  
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Uradhi Yinwum

Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct. Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.

/ⁿtʳ/ and /tʳ/ are post-trilled consonants (trilled affricates).

References

Yinwum dialect Wikipedia