Pitta Pitta languagePitta Pitta is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language. It was spoken around Boulia, Queensland.StatusIn 1979, Barry J. Blake reported that Pitta Pitta was "virtually extinct", with only three speakers remaining – Ivy Nardoo of Boulia, and Ted Marshall and Linda Craigie of Mount Isa. It is now considered unlikely that any speakers remain.VocabularyBelow is a basic vocabulary list from Blake.PituriThe name pituri for the leaves chewed as a stimulant by traditional Aboriginal people has been claimed to be derived from the Pitta Pitta word pijiri. though Walter Roth pointed out in 1897 that the word 'pituri', thus pronounced, was the term used by the neighbouring Yurlayurlanya people, and added that the Pitta Pitta people called it "tarembola".Sign languageThe Pitta Pitta had well-developed a signed form of their language.