Linngithigh dialect
| Linngithigh | |
|---|---|
| Liningitij | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Cape York Peninsula, Queensland |
| Extinct |
"recently extinct"[1] (6 speakers in 1960)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
lnj |
| Glottolog |
leni1238[3] |
| AIATSIS[4] |
Y26 |
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.[5]
References
- ↑ Linngithigh at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- ↑ Grimes, Barbara F., ed. (1974). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (8th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Liningitij". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 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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