Nyigina language
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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.
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].[3]
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link |
| Low | Template:IPA link | |
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /i/ | Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink |
| /a/ | Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink |
| /u/ | Template:IPAblink, Template:IPAblink |
See also
References
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