Antakarinya language

Antakarinya (also Andagarinya, Antikirinya, Antikirrinya) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family.

Antakarinya
Region	northeast area of South Australia
Ethnicity	Antakirinja, Matuntara
Native speakers	7 (2021 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Wati Western Desert? Warnman? Antakarinya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ant
Glottolog	anta1253
AIATSIS[2]	C5
ELP	Antakirinya
Antakarinya is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The Antakarinya people were greatly affected by the atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and the language was similarly affected in an attempt to explain the tests.^[3]