Flinders Island
Flinders Island was a Pama-Nyungan language once spoken in Australia.
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The Flinders Island language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Flinders Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is unconfirmed as a distinct language. The inhabitants of the island were the Aba Yalgayi. There were 3 speakers reported in 1981.
One of the last known speakers of the language was Johnny Flinders.
A non-Indigenous linguist, Peter Sutton, has been reported to speak the Flinders Island language.
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