Thiin language

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Thiin
Spoken in: Western Australia
Total speakers: None.
Language family: Pama-Nyungan
 South-West
  Mantharta
   Thiin 
Writing system: Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: aus
ISO/FDIS 639-3:

Thiin is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia.

[edit] Classification

Thiin is usually placed in the Mantharta subgroup of South-West Pama-Nyungan languages, though Carl Georg von Brandenstein's 1967 classification[1] had Thiin as a Coastal Ngayarda language.

Thiin is similar to Jiwarli, and the two are sometimes regarded as a single language.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Brandenstein, C.G. von (1967). “The language situation in the Pilbara — past and present”, Papers in Australian linguistics, No. 2, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 1–20.

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