Nyikina | |
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Region | Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia |
Ethnicity | Nyigina |
Native speakers
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20 (2005) to 68 (2006 census) |
Nyulnyulan
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | nyig1240 |
AIATSIS | K3 |
Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.
Warrwa may have been a dialect.
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.