Gudang or Djagaraga (Pantyinamu/Yatay/Gudang/Kartalaiga and other clans) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is the traditional language of the Gudang people, and is the northernmost language of the Cape York Peninsula. It is closely related to Urradhi (dialects Urradhi, Angkamuthi, Yadhaykenu, Wudhadhi, etc.), its neighbour to the south, and distantly related to its neighbour to the north, the Western-Central Torres Strait Language (Kala Lagaw Ya), from which it borrowed quite a few vocabulary items. Phonology Going by the records of the language recorded in MacGillivray and Brierly, as well as comparing these with their Urradhi and WCL counterparts, the phonology of the language appeared to have been as follows: vowels : i, ii; e, ee; a, aa; u, uu i,ii and u,uu had mid variants, thus and . Some Western-Central Torres Strait Language (WCL; see Kalau Lagau Ya) loans probably retained the WCL vowels unchanged. e/ee otherwise appear to have had a similar marginal status as in Urradhi (Crowley 1983:317). consonants : labial p, b, m velar k, g, ng labio-velar kw, w lamino-dental th, dh, l, nh lamino-palatal ch, j, ny, y alveolar t, d, n retroflex rt, rr, r The non-sonorant sounds appear to have had voice contrasts, except after nasals, when both voiced and voiceless allophones occurred, with the voiced allophones seemingly more common. While the lamino-dental and alveolar contrast was not marked by the European recorders, the Urradhi and WCL cognates strongly suggest that it existed. Differences between Gudang and Urradhi The main differences in phonology between Gudang and the Urradhi dialects appears to be: (1) Voiced stops existed where Urradhi has voiced fricatives, in part because of WCL loans, thus Urradhi , , and ) correspond to Gudang b, dh and g. Note that in ipadha father, Gudang p corresponds to Urradhi (ivadha), both representing Proto-Paman *piipa, proto Gudang-Urradhi *piipata. (2) Gudang had reflexive rt from Proto Paman *r and *rr Proto-Paman *warapa water, stream, Urradhi atava, Gudang artaba Proto-Paman *mara hand, Urradhi mata, Gudang arta Proto-Paman *yurru elbow, Urradhi yutu (Angkamuthi yurtu), Gudang yurtu Proto-Paman *murunya shin, Urradhi mutuny (Angkamuthi murtuny), Gudang urtunya (3) A slightly higher rate of initial dropping (including initial syllables) was evident in Gudang. (4) Gudang retained final CV syllables where Urradhi has reduced these to C. (5) Gudang had word final -rra where Urradhi has -l, and stronger retention of rr and l in the clusters rrk and lk