Linngithigh_dialect Knowpia

Linngithigh
Linngithigh
Liningitij
Native to	Australia
Region	Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity	Linngithigh, Winduwinda
Extinct	The last speaker died "several years" before 1983
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Paman North Cape York Northern Anguthimri Linngithigh; ; ; ; ;
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.^[3]

References edit

^ 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