Warrwa | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
Extinct | The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016. [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
wwr |
Glottolog |
warr1258 |
AIATSIS [2] |
K10 |
ELP | Warrwa |
Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around
Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green.
[3] |
The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. [4] [5] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. [2] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa. [6]
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified. [7]
Warrwa | |
---|---|
Native to | Australia |
Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
Extinct | The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016. [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
wwr |
Glottolog |
warr1258 |
AIATSIS [2] |
K10 |
ELP | Warrwa |
Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around
Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green.
[3] |
The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. [4] [5] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. [2] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa. [6]
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified. [7]