The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called ''Eibole'', is a recently extinct

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

. According to Wurm and Hattori (1981), there was one speaker left at the time.

Phonology

Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two

fricative A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in t ...

phoneme In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-west o ...

s, and . They usually developed from and , respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.

Phonology

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