The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016.[1]
Language family
Nyulnyulan
Eastern
Nyigina?
Warrwa
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 at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ abK10 Warrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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places like the island of Wilima off the mouth of Meda River, close to Warrwa territory. Ongkarang 0kwata Unggarangi Hercus, Luise Anna; Koch, Harold...
aboriginal informants as a 'heavy' dialect of the language spoken by the Warrwa. Norman Tindale estimate Nimanburu tribal lands to extend over roughly 1...
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this view, being on Country is not considered a right, but a privilege; as Warrwa-Noongar woman Louise O'Reilly explains: "it is not about our right to own...
neighbouring tribes were the Jukan to the north, and, running clockwise, the Warrwa northeast, the Nyigina on the eastern hinterland, and on their southern...
directly east, the Bunuba south-east the Nyigina directly south, while the Warrwa, and the Umiida lay on their western flank, between them and the sea. Ong...
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