Marrett River language explained

Marrett River
Nativename:Urratjingu
Extinct:?
Familycolor:Australian
Fam2:(unclassified, but presumably Paman)
Iso3:none
Glotto:none
Aiatsis:Y156

The Marrett River language, also known as Urratjingu,[1] is an extinct Australian language of the Queensland coast. It remains unclassified, but is known to have been quite distinct from Flinders Island language to the east and from the various languages spoken by the Lama-Lama to its west.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Peter Sutton, The Flinders Islands and Cape Melville people in history, in Verstraete & Hafner, eds, Land and Language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country, 2016, p. 96
  2. Web site: Y156: Marrett River language . Australian Indigenous Languages Database . 26 July 2019 . . 25 November 2020.