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Linngithigh dialect

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Native to
  
Australia

Glottolog
  
leni1238

ISO 639-3
  
lnj

Region
  
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland

Extinct
  
"recently extinct" (6 speakers in 1960)

Language family
  
Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Anguthimri Linngithigh

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.

References

Linngithigh dialect Wikipedia