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.
Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.
Phonology Consonants PeripheralLaminalApicalLabialVelarPalatalAlveolarRetroflexPlosiveNasalLateralTapApproximant
Sounds /ɟ, ɡ/, when following /l/ or in intervocalic positions, can be heard as [j, ɣ]. /ɾ/ can also occasionally occur as a trill [r].
Vowels FrontBackHighLow PhonemeAllophones/i/, /a/, , , /u/,
See also Belinda Dann Loongkoonan Butcher Joe Nangan
References
External links The film "Mad Bastards" (2010) depicting Nyikina language and culture