Nukunu language

Nukunu (or Nugunu or many other names: see below) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language spoken by Nukunu people on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia.

Nukunu has three different vowels with contrastive long and short lengths (a, i, u, a:, i:, u:).

The Nukunu consonantal inventory is typical for a Pama–Nyungan language, with six places of articulation for stops and nasals.

A phonemic voicing contrast exists in Nukunu, but it has only been observed in the retroflex stop series.

In contrast with other Thura–Yura languages, Nukunu did not partake in either the initial th- lenition before vowels or the lenition of initial k- before vowels.