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Linngithigh
Liningitij
Native to Australia
Region Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity Linngithigh, Winduwinda
ExtinctThe last speaker died "several years" before 1983 [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lnj
Glottolog leni1238
AIATSIS [2] 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. [3]

References

  1. ^ Linngithigh at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Y26 Linngithigh at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12-13