Nyigina language

Nyikina
Region Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
Ethnicity Nyigina
Native speakers
20 (2005) to 68 (2006 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nyh
Glottolog nyig1240[2]
AIATSIS[1] K3

Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.

Warrwa may have been a dialect.

Classification

R. M. W. Dixon (2002) regards Nyikina, Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language.

Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Nyikina at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyigina". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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