Thalanyji (also spelt Dhalandji, Thalanyji, and other variations) and Binigura /Pinikura (also spelt Pinigura, Binnigoora, and other variations), are two closely related
languages
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from the
Pilbara region of
Western Australia. They are part of the
Kanyara subgroup of the
Pama–Nyungan language family.
They are spoken by the
Thalanyji
The Thalanyji, also spelt Thalandji, Dhalandji, and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Country
Thalanyji lands, according to Norman Tindale, encompassed approximately , running along ...
and
Pinikura
The Binigura people, these days usually spelt Pinikura, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Country
The Binigura in Norman Tindale's calculation, held sway over some of tribal land, centred on the A ...
peoples respectively. Both languages are thought to be
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
; there were six speakers of Thalanyji recorded in 2004/5,
and ten speakers of Pinikura recorded in 1975, but none since in either language.
According to
Peter Austin, Pinikura, Thalanyji,
Payungu and
Purdana "should probably be classified as belonging to the Kanyara subgroup".
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References
Kanyara languages
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