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Gugu Thaypan language

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1-863: Kuku-Thaypan is an extinct Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the Cape York Peninsula , Queensland in Australia , by the Kuku-Thaypan people . The language was sometimes called Alaya or Awu Alaya . Koko-Rarmul may have been a dialect, though Bowern (2012) lists Gugu-Rarmul and Kuku-Thaypan as separate languages. The last native speaker, Tommy George , died on 29 July 2016 in Cooktown Hospital. Kuku-Thaypan has six vowels and two marginal vowels possibly only in loan words. Kuku-Thaypan has 23 consonants . This Australian Aboriginal languages -related article

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