Garrwa language

Not to be confused with Jarawa language (disambiguation).

Garrwa
Garawa, Gaarwa, Karawa Leearrawa
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Garrwa
Native speakers	150 (2021 census) [1]
Language family	Garrwan Garrwa
Dialects	Western/Light Garrwa Gunindiri †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrk
Glottolog	gara1269
AIATSIS [2]	N155
ELP	Garrwa
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Garrwa, also spelt Garawa, Gaarwa, or Karawa and also known as Leearrawa, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Garrwa people of a northern region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

Consonants

	Peripheral			Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolo- palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	k̟	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ŋ̟	ɲ	n	ɳ
Lateral				ʎ	l	ɭ
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel	w			j

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census".
2. N155 Garrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

• Belfrage, H. (1992). Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa. BA honours sub-thesis. University of Melbourne.
• Furby, Christine E. (1972). "The pronominal system of Garawa". Oceanic Linguistics. 11 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 1–31. doi:10.2307/3622731. JSTOR   3622731.
• Furby, Edward S.; Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series B, no. 42.
• Mushin, Ilana. 2012. A grammar of Garrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter.

External links

• Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive