Garawa language

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Garawa
Spoken in:	Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
Language extinction:	Late 20th century.
Language family:	Gawaran  Garawa
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	aus
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	gbc
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Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is a recently extinct Australian Aborginal language of northern Australia.

Contents 1 Classification 2 Phonology 2.1 Vowels 2.2 Consonants 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Classification

Garawa may be most closely related to the Pama-Nyungan languages. A dialect, Wanji or Waanyi, is divergent enough to sometimes be considered a separate language.

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

[edit] Consonants

	Peripheral			Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palato- velar	Palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	k̟	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ŋ̟	ɲ	n	ɳ
Lateral				ʎ	l	ɭ
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel	w			j

[edit] References

• Belfrage, H. (1992). Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa, BA honours sub-thesis, University of Melbourne.
• Furby, Christine E. (1972). "The pronominal system of Garawa". Oceanic Linguistics 11: 1–31.
• Furby, Edward S., Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

[edit] External links

• Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive
• Ethnologue report for language code:gbc