Garrwa, also spelt Garawa, Gaarwa, or Karawa and also known as Leearrawa, is an
Australian Aboriginal language
The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...
spoken by the
Garrwa people
The Garrwa people, also spelt Karawa and Garawa, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Northern Territory, whose traditional lands extended from east of the McArthur River at Borroloola to Doomadgee and the Nicholson River in Queen ...
of a northern region of the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...
of Australia.
Phonology
Vowels
Consonants
References
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* Series B, no. 42.
*Mushin, Ilana. 2012. ''A grammar of Garrwa.'' Berlin: de Gruyter.
External links
Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive
{{Australian Aboriginal languages
Garawan languages