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Kuku-Thaypan
Awu Alaya
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Kuku Thaypan, Gugu Rarmul
Extinct 2016 (with the death of Tommy George)
Language family
Dialects
Koko-Rarmul
AIATSIS Y84 Kuku Thaypan, Y71

Kuku-Thaypan was an Aboriginal language from Australia. It was spoken by the Kuku-Thaypan people in the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. People sometimes called this language Alaya or Awu Alaya.

Sadly, Kuku-Thaypan is now an extinct language. This means that no one speaks it as their first language anymore. The very last person who spoke Kuku-Thaypan fluently was Tommy George. He passed away on July 29, 2016.

About Kuku-Thaypan

Kuku-Thaypan was part of a larger group of languages called the Paman language family. These languages are spoken across the northern parts of Australia.

Where Kuku-Thaypan was spoken

The Kuku-Thaypan language was used in a specific area of Queensland. This region is known as the Cape York Peninsula. It is a large, northern part of Australia.

Sounds of the language

Like all languages, Kuku-Thaypan had its own unique sounds. It used six different vowel sounds. It also had 23 different consonant sounds. These sounds helped speakers form words and communicate.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Idioma thaypan para niños

  • Indigenous Australian languages
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