Warray language

Warray
Native to Australia
Region Adelaide River, Northern Territory.
Extinct ca. 2000
Arnhem
Dialects
  • Waray
  • ?Wulwulam = Ngorrkkowo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wrz
Glottolog wara1290  Waray[1]
wulw1234  Wulwulam[2]
AIATSIS[3] N25

Warray (Waray) was an Australian language spoken in the Adelaide River area of the Northern Territory.

Wulwulam may have been a dialect. Ngorrkkowo may have been another name for Wulwulam.[4]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Waray". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Wulwulam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Warray at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. p. xl.


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