Warrwa | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
Extinct | The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016. |
Language family | Nyulnyulan |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | wwr |
Glottolog | warr1258 |
AIATSIS | K10 |
ELP | Warrwa |
Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green. |
The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.
Grammar
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.
References
- Warrwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ K10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- map is indicative only.
- llmao.org
- Wals.info
- Ethnologue.com
- McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.
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