Warluwarra language

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Warluwarra
Native to Australia
Region Queensland
Ethnicity Waluwara
Extinct 2010s [1]
Pama–Nyungan
Dialects
  • Warluwara
  • Kapula
  • Parnkarra
Warluwara Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wrb
Glottolog warl1256
AIATSIS [1] G10
ELP Warluwarra

Warluwarra is an extinct [2] Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Waluwarra (also known as Warluwarra, Walugara, and Walukara) has a traditional language region in the local government area of Shire of Boulia, including Walgra Station and Wolga, from Roxborough Downs north to Carandotta Station and Urandangi on the Georgina River, on Moonah Creek to Rochedale, south-east of Pituri Creek. [3]

Sign

The Warluwara had a developed signed form of their language. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 G10 Warluwarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. "Glottolog 5.1 - Warluwara". glottolog.org. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  3. CC BY icon-80x15.png This Wikipedia article incorporates CC BY 4.0 licensed text from: "Waluwarra". Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. State Library of Queensland . Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  4. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.