Warrwa language

The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia.[5][6] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina.[3] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.[7]

Warrwa
Native toAustralia
RegionWest Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia
Extinct2 speakers reported in 2001[1]
Nyulnyulan
Language codes
ISO 639-3wwr
Glottologwarr1258[2]
AIATSIS[3]K10
Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green.[4]

Grammar

Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.[8]

gollark: My least favourite aspect about Go is the type system, which ties into the error handling.
gollark: It's like `null` but the same.
gollark: It tries to hide it by calling it `nil` but it's so stupid.
gollark: So is Rust. Use Rust.
gollark: <@!221273650131763200> Go is bad.

References

  1. Warrwa at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Warrwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. K10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  4. map is indicative only.
  5. llmao.org
  6. Wals.info
  7. Ethnologue.com
  8. McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.


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