Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of

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, spoken by the Nyigina people. Warrwa may have been a dialect.

Classification

R. M. W. Dixon Robert Malcolm Ward "Bob" Dixon (born 25 January 1939, in Gloucester, England) is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director o ...

(2002) regards Nyikina, Warrwa,

Yawuru The Yawuru, also spelt Jawuru, are an Indigenous Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language A Japanese linguist, Hosokawa Kōmei (細川弘明), compiled the first basic dictionary of the Yawuru language in 1988, a ...

and Jukun as a single language. Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of

non-Pama–Nyungan languages The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal Tribes around Derby

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The film "Mad Bastards" (2010) depicting Nyikina language and culture
Nyulnyulan languages Kimberley (Western Australia) {{ia-lang-stub

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