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Nyigina language

Nyulnyulan language spoken in Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.

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Warrwa may have been a dialect.

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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.

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

Phonology

Consonants

  • 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]

Vowels

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See also

References

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