Linngithigh dialect explained

Linngithigh
Also Known As:Liningitij
States:Australia
Region:Cape York Peninsula, Queensland
Ethnicity:Linngithigh, Winduwinda
Extinct:The last speaker died "several years" before 1983
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Australian
Fam1:Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:Paman
Fam3:North Cape York
Fam4:Northern
Fam5:Anguthimri
Iso3:lnj
Aiatsis:Y26
Glotto:leni1238
Glottorefname: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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Kenneth Hale, 1976, Phonological Developments in Particular Northern Paman Languages, pp.12-13