Warrwa language

Warrwa
Native to Australia
Region West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia
Extinct 2 speakers reported in 2001[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wwr
Glottolog warr1258[2]
AIATSIS[3] K10

The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia.[4][5] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina.[3] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.[6]

Grammar

Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.[7]

References

Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia.[8]
  1. ↑ Warrwa at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Warrwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. ↑ llmao.org
  5. ↑ Wals.info
  6. ↑ Ethnologue.com
  7. ↑ McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.
  8. ↑ This map is indicative only.


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