Uradhi (dialect cluster)
Uradhi (a.k.a. Bawtjathi and Lotiga) is both a blanket term for a group of closely related and highly mutually intelligible Paman dialects formerly spoken in a region north of Mapoon and Duyfken Point and east of the coastal strip north of Port Musgrave and the name of a dialect within the group, which includes:
- Urradhi (the south-western dialect);
- Wudhadhi (the southeastern dialect);
- Angkamuthi (to the north of Urradhi around the mouth of the Ducie River, the lower reaches of the Dulhunty River and the upper reaches of the Skardon River);
- Atampaya (inland of Angkamuthi);
- Utudhanamu (inland north of Atampaya);
- Yantaykenu (further north, around Bamaga);
- Yadhaykenu (on the east coast north of Wudhadhi);
- Yaraytyana (the northernmost dialect)
- Adyinuri/Itinadyana (status uncertain)
The dialects are closely related to the Gudang language, which was formerly spoken by clans including the Pantyinamu, Yatay, Gudang, and Kartalaiga on the tip of Cape York.
Although the group had no collective name, Urradhi became commonly used to label the dialects after the people who spoke them were displaced to communities and reserves elsewhere on the Cape, including New Mapoon, Injinoo and Cowal Creek. Contemporary speakers refer to their language as Injinoo Ikya.
Sources:
AIATSIS AustLang Project: Uradhi: Y184: https://aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/Y184
AIATSIS Austlang Project: Y238 Injinoo Ikya https://aiatsis.gov.au/austlang/language/Y238
Pama Language Centre: Injinoo Ikya and the Languages of Injinoo: https://www.pamacentre.org.au/injinoo-ikya-2/
Endangered Languages Project: https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3417
State Library of Queensland Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map: Uradhi: https://maps.slq.qld.gov.au/iyil/view/135
Wikipedia: Uradhi language; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uradhi_language
