Yirrk-Thangalkl (Yir Thangedl) is a dialect of

Yir-Yoront The Yir-Yoront, also known as the Yir Yiront, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula now living mostly in Kowanyama (''kawn yamar'' or 'many waters') but also in Lirrqar/Pormpuraaw, both towns outside their traditiona ...

, a Paman language spoken on the southwestern part of the

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, by the Yirrk-Thangalkl people. The language is also known as ''Yirr-Thangell'' and ''Yirrk-Mel''. During the early 1900s (decade), Yirrk-Thangalkl speakers started shifting to the Yir-Yoront dialect with the arrival of the Mitchell River Mission.

Phonology

Consonants

Yirrk-Thangalkl has 16

consonant In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h sound, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Examples are and pronou ...

s. The inventory is the same as that of

, except that Yirrk-Thangalkl lacks the

retroflex A retroflex () or cacuminal () consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate. They are sometimes referred to as cerebral consona ...

and glottal consonants and .

References

Southwestern Paman languages Extinct languages of Queensland {{ia-lang-stub