| Mpalityan | |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Ethnicity: | Winduwinda |
| Extinct: | By the 1960s |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Paman |
| Fam3: | North Cape York |
| Fam4: | Northern |
| Fam5: | Luthigh |
| Iso3: | xpj |
| Iso3comment: | Mpalitjanh |
| Glotto: | mpal1238 |
| Glottorefname: | Mpalitjanh |
| Aiatsis: | Y25 |
| Notice: | IPA |
Mpalityan (Mpalitjanh) is an Australian language once spoken in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland. It and Luthigh are dialects of a single language.[1]
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | ||
| Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t | |
| Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | |||
| Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt | |
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | |
| Vibrant | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | l | |||
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Low | æ | a |