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Wagiman (also spelled Wageman Wakiman Wogeman Wakaman) is a near-extinct indigenous Australian language spoken by fewer than 10 people in and around Pine Creek in the 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 and for its ability to productively verbalise coverbs.Wagiman is expected to become extinct within the first half of the century as the youngest generation of Wagiman people speak no Wagiman at all and understand very little.
