Nyigina language
Nyikina is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.
Warrwa may have been a dialect.
Classification
R. M. W. Dixon regards Nyikina, Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language.Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.
Phonology
Consonants
- Sounds /ɟ, ɡ/, when following /l/ or in intervocalic positions, can be heard as .
- /ɾ/ can also occasionally occur as a trill .
Vowels
| Phoneme | Allophones |
| /i/ | , |
| /a/ | ,,, |
| /u/ | , |