Marrett River language

Marrett River
Marrett River
Urratjingu
Region	Queensland
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan (unclassified, but presumably Paman) Marrett River; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS[1]	Y156

The Marrett River language, also known as Urratjingu,[2] 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.[3]

References

Y156 Marrett River at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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
"Y156: Marrett River language". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

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[AIATSIS-1] Y156 Marrett River at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

[2] 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

[3] "Y156: Marrett River language". Australian Indigenous Languages Database. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2020.