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|region=[[Pine Creek, Northern Territory|Pine Creek]], [[Northern Territory]], [[Australia]]
|ethnicity=[[Wagiman]]
|speakers=11
|date=2005
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'''Wagiman''' (also spelled ''Wageman'', ''Wakiman'', ''Wogeman'', ''Wakaman'')<ref>Carrington, L., & Triffitt, G. (1999: 266)</ref> is a near-extinct [[indigenous Australian language]] spoken by fewer than 10 [[Wagiman people]]<ref name="Gordon, R. G., Jr. 2005">Gordon, R. G., Jr. (2005)</ref> in and around [[Pine Creek, Northern Territory|Pine Creek]], in the [[Katherine, Northern Territory|Katherine]] Region of the [[Northern Territory]].
The Wagiman language is notable within linguistics for its complex system of verbal morphology, which remains under-investigated, its possession of a cross-linguistically rare part of speech called a [[coverb]], its [[#Complex predicates|complex predicates]] and for its ability to productively verbalise coverbs.
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