| Warrwa | |
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| Spoken in | Australia |
| Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
| Extinct | ? |
| Language family |
Nyulnyulan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wwr |
The Warrwa language are an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in Western Australia.[1] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.[2]
Specifically, it was spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome.[3]
It was in the eastern subgroup of the Nyulnyulan language subfamily with Jukun and Yawuru.
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.[4]
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