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: I assume it was some nanoscale bees. Very multipurpose.
gollark: CLEAR evidence of Intel superiority?!?!?!?!
gollark: But if you become better, you would ??? intelligence explosion and immediately convert the planet into paperclips.
gollark: I obviously explained enough, at explaining level 2.
gollark: Which other parts are problematic?

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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