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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.
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.

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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