Warlmanpa language

Warlmanpa
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Ethnicity	Warlmanpa
Native speakers	30 (2005) to 48 (2006 census) [1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Ngumpin–Yapa Ngarrkic Warlmanpa
Signed forms	Warlmanpa Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrl
Glottolog	warl1255
AIATSIS [1]	C17
ELP	Warlmanpa

Warlmanpa (also Walmala) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language.

The Warlmanpa have a highly developed sign language.

One of the first recordings of this language was made by Kenneth Hale in his interview with Donald Jupurrula Graham in 1966. ^[2]

Phonology

Warlmanpa vowel inventory ^[3]

	Front	Back
High	i   iː	u   uː
Low	a   aː

Warlmanpa consonant inventory ^{[3] [4]}

		Bilabial	Apico- alveolar	Apico- domal	Lamino- alveolar	Dorso- velar
Plosive	lax	p	t	ʈ	c	k
	tense	pː	tː	ʈː	cː	kː
Nasal		m	n	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Lateral			l	ɭ	ʎ
Flap			ɾ
Glide		w		ɻ	j

External links

• Paradisec has a collection that include Warlmanpa language materials.

References

1. C17 Warlmanpa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Nash, David (2008). "Donald Jupurrula Graham (c1920-1989)". Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography (Rev ed.). Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press. p. 233. hdl:10070/492231. ISBN   9780980457810 . Retrieved 24 June 2025.^{[ dead link ]}
3. Nash, David. “A Preliminary Vocabulary of the Warlmanpa Language.” Word list and grammatical sketch. Cambridge, MA, 1979.
4. Browne, Mitchell Stewart (2021). A Grammatical Description of Warlmanpa. The University of Queensland Australia.