Warrwa
Native toAustralia
RegionWest Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia
ExtinctThe last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016.[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wwr
Glottologwarr1258
AIATSIS[2]K10
ELPWarrwa
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]

References

  1. ^ Warrwa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b 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.


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