Linngithigh dialect

Linngithigh
Liningitij
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Extinct "recently extinct"[1]
(6 speakers in 1960)[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lnj
Glottolog leni1238[3]
AIATSIS[4] Y26

Linngithigh (Liningitij) is an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by the Linngithigh people. It is very similar phonologically to the closely related Alngith.[5]

References

  1. Linngithigh at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
  2. Grimes, Barbara F., ed. (1974). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (8th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Liningitij". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. Linngithigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  5. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12-13


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