| Yinwum | |
| States: | Australia |
| Region: | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Ethnicity: | Yinwum, ?Nyuwathayi |
| Extinct: | By 1960s |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Fam1: | Pama–Nyungan |
| Fam2: | Paman |
| Fam3: | North Cape York |
| Fam4: | Northern |
| Fam5: | Uradhi |
| Dia1: | Njuwadhai? |
| Iso3: | yxm |
| Aiatsis: | Y29 |
| Glotto: | yinw1236 |
| Glottorefname: | Yinwum |
Yinwum is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Yinwum people. It is unknown when it became extinct.[1] Historically, it underwent some unusual phonological changes that are difficult to classify and understand in phonetic terms.
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Nasal | m | ŋ | ɲ | n̪ | n | ||
| Prenasalised stop | ⁿp | ⁿk | ⁿc | ⁿt̪ | ⁿt ⁿtʳ | ||
| Plosive | p | k | c | t̪ | t tʳ | ||
| Fricative | β | ɣ | ð | ||||
| Vibrant | r | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | l | ɻ | |||
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ||
| Low | a | ||