Thiin language
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Thiin | ||
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Spoken in: | Western Australia | |
Total speakers: | None. | |
Language family: | Pama-Nyungan South-West Mantharta Thiin |
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Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | aus | |
ISO 639-3: | — | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. |
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
- ^ 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.