Barrow Point language

The Barrow Point or Mutumui language, called Eibole, is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. According to Wurm and Hattori, there was one speaker left at the time.

Classification

The language has one dialect in the north called Ongwara.

Unusually among Australian languages, Barrow Point had at least two fricative phonemes, and. They usually developed from and, respectively, when preceded by a stressed long vowel, which then shortened.