Garawa language
Not to be confused with Jarawa language (disambiguation).
Garawa | |
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Region | Northern Territory, Australia |
Native speakers | 40 (2005) to 87 (2006 census)[1] |
Garrwan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
wrk |
Glottolog |
gara1269 [2] |
AIATSIS[1] |
N155 |
Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Garrwa people of northern Australia.
Phonology
Vowels
Front | Back | |
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High | i | u |
Low | a |
Consonants
Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | ||||
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Bilabial | Velar | Palatal | Alveolo- palatal |
Alveolar | Retroflex | |
Stop | p | k | k̟ | c | t | ʈ |
Nasal | m | ŋ | ŋ̟ | ɲ | n | ɳ |
Lateral | ʎ | l | m | |||
Rhotic | ɲ | ɻ | ||||
Semivowel | w | j |
References
- 1 2 Garawa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Garawa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Belfrage, H. (1992). Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa. BA honours sub-thesis. University of Melbourne.
- Furby, Christine E. (1972). "The pronominal system of Garawa". Oceanic Linguistics. University of Hawai'i Press. 11 (1): 1–31. doi:10.2307/3622731. JSTOR 3622731.
- Furby, Edward S.; Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series B, no. 42.
- Mushin, Ilana. 2012. A grammar of Garrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter.
External links
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