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2 Phonology  


2.1  Consonants  




2.2  Vowels  






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Nyikina
RegionLower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
EthnicityNyigina

Native speakers

61 (2016 census)[1]

Language family

Nyulnyulan

Writing system

Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3nyh
Glottolognyig1240
AIATSIS[2]K3
ELPNyikina

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

Warrwa may have been a dialect.

Classification[edit]

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

Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan familyofnon-Pama–Nyungan languages.

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

Phonology[edit]

Consonants[edit]

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive b ɡ ɟ d ɖ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Lateral ʎ l ɭ
Tap ɾ
Approximant w j ɻ

Vowels[edit]

Front Back
High i u
Low a
Phoneme Allophones
/i/ [i], [ɪ]
/a/ [ä], [ɑ], [ʌ], [æ]
/u/ [u], [ʊ]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  • ^ K3 Nyikina at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • ^ This map is indicative only.
  • ^ Stokes, Bronwyn (1982). A Description of Nyigina, A Language of West Kimberley, Western Australia. Canberra: Australian National University.

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