Yawuru language

Yawuru
Region	Australia
Native speakers	6 (2006 census)^[1]
Language family	Nyulnyulan Eastern Yawuru
Dialects	Julbayi Marangan Jukun
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ywr`
Glottolog	`yawu1244`^[2]
AIATSIS^[1]	`K1`

Yawuru is a Western Nyulnyulan language 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.

Languages of Australia

English varieties

Major indigenous
languages

Language families	Arnhem Bunuban Daly (four families) Darwin Garrwan Giimbiyu Iwaidjan Jarrakan Marrgu Mirndi Nyulnyulan Pama–Nyungan Tangkic Tasmanian (4 families?) Tiwi Wagiman Worrorran Yangmanic (Wardaman)

Pidgins, creoles and
mixed languages

Sign languages

Template:Aboriginal peoples in New South Wales

References

1 2 Yawuru 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). "Yawuru". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Yawuru Ngan-ga, a Phrasebook of the Yawuru Language, Magabala, 1995.

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