Warrwa language

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Warrwa
Native to Australia
RegionWest Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia
Extinct 2016, with the death of Maudie Lennard [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]

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Grammar

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

Phonology

Consonants

Peripheral Laminal Apical
Labial Velar Palatal Alveolar Retroflex
Plosive b k ɟ d ɖ
Nasal m ŋ ɲ n ɳ
Lateral ʎ l ɭ
Tap ɾ
Approximant w j ɻ

Vowels

Front Back
High i u
Low a

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. 1 2 3 McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.
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