Warray language

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

Warray
Native toAustralia
RegionAdelaide River, Northern Territory
EthnicityAwarai, Wulwulam
Extinctca. 2000
Arnhem
  • Gunwinyguan
    • Warrayic
      • Warray
Dialects
  • Waray
  • ?Wulwulam = Ngorrkkowo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3wrz
Glottologwara1290  Warray[1]
wulw1234  Wulwulam[2]
AIATSIS[3]N25
Not to be confused with Waray language.

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

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Warray". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wulwulam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. N25 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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