Nyigina language

Nyikina
Region	Lower Fitzroy River, Western Australia
Ethnicity	Nyigina
Native speakers	20 (2005) to 68 (2006 census)^[1]
Language family	Nyulnyulan Eastern Nyikina
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nyh`
Glottolog	`nyig1240`^[2]
AIATSIS^[1]	`K3`

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.

Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia.^[3]

1 2 Nyikina at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nyigina". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ This map is indicative only.

Capell, A. (1952/1953). "Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia". Mankind. 4: 351–360, 450–496. doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1952.tb00261.x. Check date values in: |date= (help)
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. Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World. Wallace-Crabbe, C. Cambridge, Mass.: 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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