Nyikina (alsoNyigina,Njigina) is anAustralian Aboriginal language ofWestern Australia, spoken by theNyigina people.

Warrwa may have been a dialect.

R. M. W. Dixon (2002) regards Nyikina,Warrwa,Yawuru andJukun as a single language.

Nyikina is placed in theNyulnyulan family ofnon-Pama–Nyungan languages.

• 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].^[4]

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• Capell, A. (1952–1953). "Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia".Mankind.4 (9):351–360,450–496.doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1952.tb00261.x.
• Dixon, R. M. W. (2002).Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press.
• Muecke, Stephen (2004)."A Chance to Hear a Nyigina Song". In Ryan, J. (ed.).Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World. Wallace-Crabbe, C. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies. pp. 123–135.ISBN 978-0-674-01573-9.
• Stokes, B. (1982).A description of Nyigina, a language of the West Kimberley, Western Australia. PhD dissertation. Australian National University.

• The film "Mad Bastards" (2010) depicting Nyikina language and culture

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