Nyigina language

Nyikina
Nyikina
Region	Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
Ethnicity	Nyigina
Native speakers	61 (2016 census)
Language family	Nyulnyulan Eastern Nyikina; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nyh
Glottolog	nyig1240
AIATSIS	K3
ELP	Nyikina

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.

Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia^[3]

Sounds /ɟ, ɡ/, when following /l/ or in intervocalic positions, can be heard as [j, ɣ].
/ɾ/ can also occasionally occur as a trill [r].^[4]

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

^ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^ K3 Nyikina at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ This map is indicative only.
^ Stokes, Bronwyn (1982). A Description of Nyigina, A Language of West Kimberley, Western Australia. Canberra: Australian National University.

Capell, A. (1952–1953). "Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia". Mankind. 4 (9): 351–360, 450–496. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1952.tb00261.x.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press.
Muecke, Stephen (2004). "A Chance to Hear a Nyigina Song". In Ryan, J. (ed.). Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World. Wallace-Crabbe, C. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies. pp. 123–135. ISBN 978-0-674-01573-9.
Stokes, B. (1982). A description of Nyigina, a language of the West Kimberley, Western Australia. PhD dissertation. Australian National University.

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