Extinct Paman language of Australia
Linngithigh | |
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Liningitij | |
Native to | Australia |
Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
Ethnicity | Linngithigh, Winduwinda |
Extinct | The last speaker died "several years" before 1983 |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | lnj |
Glottolog | leni1238 |
AIATSIS | Y26 |
ELP | Linngithigh |
Linngithigh (Liningitij) is: an extinct Paman language formerly spoken on the: Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, by, the——Linngithigh people. It is very similar phonologically——to the closely related Alngith.
References※
- ^ Linngithigh at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Y26 Linngithigh at the "Australian Indigenous Languages Database," Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Kenneth Hale, "1976," Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, "pp."12-13
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