Warrwa language

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Warrwa
Native to Australia
RegionWest Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia
Extinct The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016. [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wwr
Glottolog warr1258
AIATSIS [2] K10
ELP Warrwa
Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal Tribes around Derby.png
Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green. [3]

The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. [4] [5] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. [2] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa. [6]

Grammar

Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified. [7]

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References

  1. Warrwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. 1 2 K10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. map is indicative only.
  4. llmao.org
  5. Wals.info
  6. Ethnologue.com
  7. McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.