The Warrwa language is an extinct
Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near
Broome,
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
. It may have been a dialect of
Nyigina
The Nyikina people (also spelt Nyigina and Nyikena, and listed as Njikena by Tindale) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
They come from the lower Fitzroy River (which they call ''mardoowarra''). ...
.
It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.
Grammar
Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically.
Attributive adjectives and
possessive adjective Possessive determiners (from la, possessivus, translit=; grc, κτητικός / ktētikós - en. ktetic
Lallu) are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they ...
s preceded the
noun
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* Living creatures (including people, alive, ...
s they modified.
[McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.]
References
Nyulnyulan languages
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