Nyigina language

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.

Phonology

Consonants

• Sounds /ɟ, É¡/, when following /l/ or in intervocalic positions, can be heard as [j, É£].
• /ɾ/ can also occasionally occur as a trill [r].

Vowels

See also

• Belinda Dann
• Loongkoonan
• Butcher Joe Nangan

References

External links

• The film "Mad Bastards" (2010) depicting Nyikina language and culture