Kija language

Kija
Region From Halls Creek to Kununurra, Western Australia
Native speakers
210 (2006 census)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gia
Glottolog kitj1240[2]
AIATSIS[1] K20

Kija (Kitja, Gidja) is an Australian Aboriginal language today spoken by about 100 people, most of whom live in the region from Halls Creek to Kununurra in Western Australia.

Kuluwarrang and Walgi may have been dialects.

References

  1. 1 2 Kija 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). "Kitja". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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