Yitha Yitha language

Yitha-Yitha
	Lower Darling–Lower Lachlan
Region	South Australia
Ethnicity	Yitha Yitha, Tatitati
Native speakers	10 (2005)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Lower Murray Yitha-Yitha; ;
Dialects	Yitha-Yitha; Dardi-Dardi (Tati-Tati, Ta-tati);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; xth – Yitha Yitha; dda – Dadi Dadi
Glottolog	lowe1403[2]
AIATSIS[1]	D7 Yitha Yitha, S28 Dadi Dadi
	Jitajita traditional lands

Yitha-Yitha is a moribund language of southern South Australia spoken by the Yitha Yitha people. The language was studied in the 1980s. Yita Yita has many monosyllabic words, consonant finals and consonant clusters. Many Yita Yita place names include the words tin meaning foot, and cabul meaning leg.

References

D7 Yitha Yitha at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Darling–Lower Lachlan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[AIATSIS-1] D7 Yitha Yitha at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lower Darling–Lower Lachlan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.