Ethnicity Nyigina ISO 639-3 nyh | Writing system Latin | |
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Region Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia Native speakers 20 (2005) to 68 (2006 census) Language family Nyulnyulan
Eastern
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.
Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.
References
Nyigina language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA