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]