Worrorran languages
The Worrorran (Wororan) languages are a small family of Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Western Australia.
| Worrorran | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | northern Kimberley region[1], west of Wyndham |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions | |
| Glottolog | worr1236[2] |
 Map of the Worrorran languages | |
The Worrorran languages fall into three dialect clusters:
In addition, Gulunggulu is unattested but presumably a Worrorran lect.[3]
Validity
There has been debate over whether the Worrorran languages are demonstrably related to one another, or constitute a geographical language group.
Dixon (2002) considers them to be language isolates with no demonstrable relationship other than that of a Sprachbund.
However, more recent literature differs from Dixon:
- Rumsey and McGregor (2009) demonstrate the cohesiveness of the family and its reconstructibility, and;
- Bowern (2011) accepts the Worroorran languages as a family.[4]
gollark: Interesting! Initiating viewing.
gollark: I *also* have 16lc, it's not much.
gollark: I don't have enough for that to be remotely viable.
gollark: ↑ still coral
gollark: ↑ wrong person
References
- McGregor, William (2004), The languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia, RoutledgeCurzon, ISBN 978-0-415-30808-3
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Worrorran". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Worrorran languages". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- McGregor and Rumsey (2009). Worrorran Revisited: The Case for Genetic Relations Among Languages of the Northern Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Pacific Linguistics.
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