This paper studies the properties of the probability density function p α,ν,n (x) of the n-variate generalized Linnik distribution whose characteristic function ϕ α,ν,n (t) is given bywhere t is the Euclidean norm of t ∈ R n . Integral representations of p α,ν,n (x) are obtained and used to derive the asymptotic expansions of p α,ν,n (x) when x → 0 and x → ∞ respectively. It is shown that under certain conditions which are arithmetic in nature, p α,ν,n (x) can be represented in terms of entire functions.