Nyigina language

Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal languageofWestern Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.

Nyikina
Region	Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
Ethnicity	Nyigina
Native speakers	61 (2016 census)^[1]
Language family	Nyulnyulan Eastern Nyikina
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nyh`
Glottolog	`nyig1240`
AIATSIS^[2]	`K3`
ELP	Nyikina

R. M. W. Dixon (2002) regards Nyikina, Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language.

Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia^[3]

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]

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

^ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.

^ This map is indicative only.

^ Stokes, Bronwyn (1982). A Description of Nyigina, A Language of West Kimberley, Western Australia. Canberra: Australian National University.

Capell, A. (1952–1953). "Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia". Mankind. 4 (9): 351–360, 450–496. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1952.tb00261.x.
Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press.
Muecke, Stephen (2004). "A Chance to Hear a Nyigina Song". In Ryan, J. (ed.). Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World. Wallace-Crabbe, C. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies. pp. 123–135. ISBN 978-0-674-01573-9.
Stokes, B. (1982). A description of Nyigina, a language of the West Kimberley, Western Australia. PhD dissertation. Australian National University.

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