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The Yawijibaya, also written Jaudjibaia, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. Along with the Unggarranggu people, they are the traditional owners of Buccaneer Archipelago, off Derby, together known as the Mayala group for native title purposes. Yawijibaya country includes Montgomery Island (Yawajaba) and the surrounding Montgomery Reef.
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Cited references
- 1 2 Djawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 3 K16 Jawi (Malay) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: djw". SIL International. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
Name: Djawi
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Djawi". Glottolog 4.3.
- 1 2 McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis. pp. 40–42.
- ↑ Bowern, C. "A Grammar of Bardi" Berlin: Mouton, 2012, Chapter 1.
- ↑ Sunday Island Mission Records
General references
- Bird, W. (1910). "Some remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie language, as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia". Anthropos. 5: 454–456.
- Bird, W. (1915). "A short vocabulary of the Chowie-language of the Buccaneer Islanders (Sunday Islanders) north western Australia". Anthropos. 10: 180–186.
- Bird, W.; Hadley, S. (not dated). "Native vocabulary: Sunday Island", unpublished manuscript.
