Warrwa language
| Warrwa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
| Extinct | 2 speakers reported in 2001[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
wwr |
| Glottolog |
warr1258[2] |
| AIATSIS[3] |
K10 |
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.[3] It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.[6]
Grammar
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.[7]
References
- ↑ Warrwa at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Warrwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ llmao.org
- ↑ Wals.info
- ↑ Ethnologue.com
- ↑ McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.
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