Yawuru language

Yawuru
Region Australia
Native speakers
6  (2006 census)[1]
Nyulnyulan
  • Eastern

    • Yawuru
Dialects
Julbayi
Marangan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ywr
Glottolog yawu1244[2]
AIATSIS[1] K1

Yawuru is a Western Nyulnyulan language formerly spoken on the coast south of Broome in Western Australia.

Grammatically it resembles other Nyulnyulan languages. It has a relatively free word order. [3]

It has few fluent speakers, but continues to be taught in schools in Broome.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Yawuru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yawuru". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Yawuru Ngan-ga, a Phrasebook of the Yawuru Language, Magabala, 1995.