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Antakarinya
Region northeast area of South Australia
Ethnicity Antakirinja, Matuntara
Native speakers 7  (2021 census)
Language family
AIATSIS C5
Lang Status 20-CR.svg
Antakarinya is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Antakarinya (also Andagarinya, Antikirinya, Antikirrinya) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family.

The Antakarinya people were greatly affected by the atomic testing at Maralinga in the 1950s and the language was similarly affected in an attempt to explain the tests.

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