Wardaman
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| Wardaman | ||
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| Spoken in: | Australia | |
| Region: | Northern Territory | |
| Total speakers: | 50 (1983) | |
| Language family: | Australian Ginwinyguan Yangmanic Wardaman |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | wrr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Wardaman people are a small group of Indigenous Australians living about 200km South-West of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia. They speak the Wardaman language which is said to be a near-extinct Australian Aboriginal language.
Perhaps the most famous Wardaman person is Bill Yidumduma Harney, who is known as an advocate for Indigenous Australians, and has written several books, including his most recent, on Australian Aboriginal Astronomy, written with Hugh Cairns, entitled Dark Sparklers.
[edit] Further Reading
- Dark Sparklers - a description of Wardaman culture, their cosmology, and how it relates to the night sky
- Ethnologue entry for Wardaman
