Kitja
Kitja is a Jarrakan language spoken in Australia, by about 169 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
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Gija (variously spelled Kija, Kitja, Gidja) is an Australian Aboriginal language today spoken by about 200 people, most of whom live in the region from Halls Creek to Kununurra and west to Lansdowne and Tableland Stations in Western Australia. It is a member of the Jarragan language family, a non-Pama-Nyungan family in the East Kimberley. The Argyle Diamond Mine, on the south-western corner of Lake Argyle, is on the borders of Gija and Miriwoong country. The Purnululu National Park (Gija orthography: 'Boornoolooloo'), which contains the Bungle Bungle Range, is located mostly in Gija country.
Kuluwarrang and Walgi may have been dialects.
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Words in Kitja
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | Tiyili5* | |
| name | yiNi5pe* | |
| eye | muLum* | |
| ear | yatem* | |
| tooth | mi5tuwu* | |
| tongue | talala* | |
| hand | maLam* | |
| blood | kuNulum* | |
| bone | kuTi* | |
| skin | waNare* | |
| knee | ma5Tur* | |
| breast | kamum* | |
| liver | miLim* | |
| water | kurlum | |
| fire | manem* | |
| sun | malwala* | |
| star | wata* | |
| stone | Narkalem* | |
| mountain | Narkale* | |
| tree | ku5Ta5* | |
| leaf | kanaram* | |
| night | 5ikan* | |
| dog | Tula* | |
| fish | kuntari* | |
| louse | yiwi* | |
| one | Tirawuku* | |
| two | paNari5* | |
| I | Nayin* | |
| you | 5iNan* | |
| we | yuwurun* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · kitj1240 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · gia