Warrwa language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Warrwa |
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| Native to | Australia |
| Region | West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia |
| Extinct | The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016.e25 |
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| AIATSIS | K10 |
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Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green.
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The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.
Grammar
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.
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