Garawa language
Not to be confused with Jarawa language.
| Garawa | |
|---|---|
| Region | Northern Territory, Australia |
Native speakers | 40 (2005) to 87 (2006 census)[1] |
|
Garrwan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wrk |
| Glottolog |
gara1269[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
N155 |
Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is an Australian Aboriginal language of northern Australia.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Low | a | |
Consonants
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolo- 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 | ||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Garawa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Garawa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- 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 (University of Hawai'i Press) 11 (1): 1–31. doi:10.2307/3622731. JSTOR 3622731.
- Furby, Edward S.; Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series B, no. 42.
- Mushin, Ilana. 2012. A grammar of Garrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter.
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