Nyikina

Nyikina

Infobox Language
name=Nyikina
region=Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
speakers=50 (1981)
familycolor=Australian
fam1=Nyulnyulan
fam2=Eastern
fam3=Nyikinic
script=Latin alphabet
iso2=aus
iso3=nyh

Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of Western Australia.

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.

ee also

*Belinda Dann

References

*cite journal |last=Capell |first=A. |year=1952/1953 |title=Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia |journal=Mankind |volume=4, |pages=351–360, 450–496
*cite book |last=Dixon |first=R. M. W. |authorlink=R. M. W. Dixon |year=2002 |title=Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development |publisher=Cambridge University Press |url=http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780
*cite book |last=Stokes |first=B. |year=1982 |title=A description of Nyigina, a language of the West Kimberley, Western Australia |others=PhD dissertation |publisher=Australian National University

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=nyh Ethnologue report for language code:nyh]


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