Yir-Yoront language
In 1991 only 15 speakers remained,[2] with the rest of the Yir-Yoront people speaking English or even Kuuk Thaayorre as many speakers of Yir-Yoront apparently are using Kuuk Thaayorre in daily conversation.The first part of both of the name, Yir, is from the word yirrq meaning speech or language.In the standard orthography, it is correctly spelled Yirr-Yorront, with "rr" representing the consonant /r/.There is a valid alternative pronunciation with stress on the first syllable; this can be written YirrqYorront.[6] It may have had some influence in the broader Far North Queensland Indigenous Sign Language, though it may have gone extinct too early for that.