Warlmanpa language

Warlmanpa
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Ethnicity	Warlmanpa
Native speakers	30 (2005) to 48 (2006 census)[1]
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Ngumpin–Yapa Ngarrkic Warlmanpa; ; ;
Signed forms	Warlmanpa Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrl
Glottolog	warl1255[2]
AIATSIS[1]	C17

Warlmanpa (also Walmala) is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language.

The Warlmanpa have a highly developed sign language.

Phonology

Warlmanpa consonant inventory[3]

	Bilabial	Apico-alveolar	Apico-domal	Lamino-alveolar	Dorso-velar
Lax stops	p	t	rt	j	k
Tense stops	pp	tt	rtt	jj	kk
Nasals	m	n	rn	ny	ng
Laterals		l	rl	ly
Flap		rr
Glides	w		r	y

Warlmanpa vowel inventory[3]

	Front	Back
High	i iː	u uː
Low	a aː

gollark: For `Maybe`s, `fmap` will run a function you give it over its one element if it has one, or just return `Nothing` if there isn't one.

gollark: Now, you can actually replace `>>=` with `fmap` and `join`.

gollark: It's a generalization of it. Hush.

gollark: You can sequence a bunch of things which take a result and return a result-or-a-failure using `>>=`.

gollark: What? It has `Nothing`. That exists.

C17 Warlmanpa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Warlmanpa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Nash, David. “A Preliminary Vocabulary of the Warlmanpa Language.” Word list and grammatical sketch. Cambridge, MA, 1979.

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