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 | |
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Native to | Australia |
Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
Extinct | 2 speakers reported in 2001[1] |
Language family | Nyulnyulan
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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] |
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.[7]
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Macro-Gunwinyguan ? |
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Iwaidjan |
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Darwin Region ? |
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Daly River Sprachbund |
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Mirndi |
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Jarrakan |
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Bunuban |
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Nyulnyulan |
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Tasmanian family-level groups |
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