Mayi-Kutuna, also spelt Mayaguduna, Maikudunu and other variants, is an
extinct Mayabic language once spoken by the
Mayi-Kutuna
The Mayi-Kutuna, also spelt Mayaguduna and Maikudunu, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula in the state of Queensland, whose language has become extinct.
Country
In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Maikudunu 's tribal ...
, an
Aboriginal Australian
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the T ...
people of the present-day
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación ...
in northern
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
, Australia.
Gavan Breen
Gavan Breen (born 22 January 1935), OAM, also known as J.G. Breen, is an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He has studied and recorded 49 such languages.
Life Early life
Breen was born at ...
(1981) thought that the
Marrago
The Marrago were an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. They may have been a subgroup of the Mayi-Kutuna.
Country
Little is known of the details of the Marrago domain, which was in western ...
might have been a sub-group of the Mayi Kutuna people;
Paul Memmott (1994) lists the Marrago language separately but gives no further detail. Their status is unconfirmed by the
AIATSIS collection.
References
Mayabic languages
Extinct languages of Queensland
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