Worrorra, also written Worora and other variants, and also known as Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western Australia. It encompasses a number of dialects, which are spoken by a group of people known as the Worrorra people.
It is one of a group of Worrorran languages, the other two being Wunambal and Ngarinyin.
^Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
^Clendon (1994, 2000), Love (2000), cited in Dixon 2002
^K17 Worrorra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
Worrorra, also written Worora and other variants, and also known as Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western...
of the (Western) Worrorralanguage, and sometimes groups whose traditional languages are one of the whole group of Worrorran languages. A native title...
Relations Among Languages of the Northern Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Pacific Linguistics. Clendon, Mark (2014). Worrorra: a language of the north-west...
Wunambal is one of three Worrorran languages, the others being (Western) Worrorra and Ngarinyin (Eastern Worrorra, or Ungarinjin). As of 2020[update]...
Saint Mark and Saint Luke into the Worrorralanguage, and mission children were taught in both English and Worrorra. In 1949, the land, livestock and equipment...
including the Worrorran languages of Wunambal and Worrorra. Ngarinyin is found at the centre of the region, and the other Aboriginal languages in the area face...
There are numerous Australian Aboriginal languages and dialects, many of which are endangered. An endangered language is one that it is at risk of falling...
Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
traditional owners of the area are the Dambimangari people of the Worrorralanguage group. Their name for the island is Yudawala or Yeewadan Ganjal. "Status...
extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
Australia. The Umiida spoke one of the dialects of the (western) Worrorralanguage. What little is known of it, and Ungarrangu, was taken down by Howard...
Worrorra, Wunambal and Ngarinyin peoples of the Kimberley. For the purpose of a mineral rights agreement with a mining company in 2006, the Worrorra were...
air-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ [bare URL PDF] Clendon, Mark (2014). Worrorra: A Language of the North-West Kimberley Coast. Adelaide: University of Adelaide...
National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6. Clendon, Mark (2014). Worrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast (PDF). University of Adelaide....
of the cultural bloc known as the Wanjina Wunggurr, consisting of the Worrorra (and neighbouring Ngardi), Wunambal and Ngarinyin peoples of the Kimberley...
missionary and expert on the Worrorra, J. R. B. Love maintained that the Yawijibaya were being completely assimilated into the Worrorra people by the 1930s, as...
Marrithiyel Southern Daly - Ngan'gi Wagaydyic - Wadjiginy Worrorran - Worrorra Possible language isolate - Giimbiyu Sometimes this takes the form of neglecting...
distinctive clan and moiety classification.[citation needed] The Wunambal, Worrorra, and Ngarinyin peoples form a cultural bloc known Wanjina Wunggurr. The...
Millstream. The Ngarluma language belongs to the Ngayarda branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. It is a highly inflected suffixing language, with, unusually, a...
27 September 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2012. Clendon, Mark (2014). Worrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast (See map, page i.). University...
(1889–1947) was a Presbyterian clergyman who became a major authority on the Worrorra people of the Kimberley region of north Western Australia. Though quickly...
Australia, Australia Worrorran peoples Ngarinyin: Western Australia, Australia Worrorra: Western Australia, Australia Wunambal: Western Australia, Australia Pama-Nyungan...
Kimberley region of Western Australia. There he worked in particular with the Worrorra, Ngarinjin and other tribes of the Dampier Archipelago. On his return,...
Indigenous Australian languages date back to the 1800s, when missionaries translated the Bible into several Aboriginal languages. The practice has continued...
Gambre Barurungari ('upland'/plateau people') Kambumiri Purungari (a Worrorra exonym meaning 'coast people') Dixon 2002, p. xli. Tindale 1974, p. 243...
agreement with two Aboriginal Australian peoples, the Dambimangari (Dambima/Worrorra-Ngardi) traditional owners of the island. The agreement aims to ensure...
Australia, around present day Broome. The word riji is from the Bardi language. Another word for it is jakuli. Before being decorated, the pearl shell...
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