Jawi
Djawi, Djaui
RegionWestern Australia
EthnicityJawi
Extinctby 2003[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3djw
Glottologdjaw1238
AIATSIS[2]K16 Jawi (Malay)
ELPJawi

Jawi[2] or Djawi[1][3][4] or Djaui,[2] is a nearly extinct dialect of the Bardi language of Western Australia, the traditional language of the Jawi people. There are no longer any known fluent speakers, but there may be some partial speakers.[5]

The name has also been spelt Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Dyao, and Dyawi.

Classification

Jawi is a Non-Pama–Nyungan language of the Nyulnyulan family, most closely related to Bardi.[5] Bowern discusses how Jawi and Bardi may have converged within the last hundred years.[6] Jawi people were hit hard by influenza[7] in the early years of the 20th century. Their traditional lands are Sunday Island and the islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago to the northeast.

References

Traditional lands of Aboriginal tribes around Derby, WA

Cited references

  1. ^ a b Djawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c K16 Jawi (Malay) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: djw". SIL International. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Name: Djawi
  4. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Djawi". Glottolog 4.3.
  5. ^ a b McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis. pp. 40–42.
  6. ^ Bowern, C. "A Grammar of Bardi" Berlin: Mouton, 2012, Chapter 1.
  7. ^ Sunday Island Mission Records

General references

  • Bird, W. (1910). "Some remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie language, as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia". Anthropos. 5: 454–456.
  • Bird, W. (1915). "A short vocabulary of the Chowie-language of the Buccaneer Islanders (Sunday Islanders) north western Australia". Anthropos. 10: 180–186.
  • Bird, W.; Hadley, S. (not dated). "Native vocabulary: Sunday Island", unpublished manuscript.

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