Yanyuwa (Barni - Wardimantha Awara) Indigenous Protected Area

	Yanyuwa (Barni - Wardimantha Awara) Indigenous Protected Area Yanyuwa or Yanyula may refer to: Yanyuwa people Yanyuwa language Yanyuwa () is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola () in the Northern Territory, Australia. Yanyuwa, like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, is a h ... {{dab Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yanyuwa People The Yanyuwa people, also spelt Yanuwa, Yanyula and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory who live in the coastal region inclusive of and opposite to the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Country In Norman Tindale's estimation, the Yanyuwa had roughly of tribal lands, encompassing the McArthur River from near Borroloola as far as the coast, and running southeast along the coast to the other sided of Tully Inlet. They were also present at Pungalina. Offshore, perhaps excluding Vanderlin Island though contemporary Yanyuwa insist they were Indigenous also to that area, they also lived and fished on the Sir Edward Pellew Islands. The Yanyuwa lived east of the Wilingura. On their southern flank were the Binbinga people. In the Yanyuwa language there are some 1,500 placenames marking out the distinctive features of the territory they once inhabited. History The Yanyuwa traded with the trepangers fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yanyuwa Language Yanyuwa () is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola () in the Northern Territory, Australia. Yanyuwa, like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, is a highly agglutinative language with ergative-absolutive alignment, whose grammar is pervaded by a set of 16 noun classes whose agreements are complicated and numerous. Yanyuwa is a critically endangered language. The anthropologist John Bradley has worked with the Yanyuwa people for three decades and is also a speaker of Yanyuwa. He has produced a large dictionary and grammar of the language, along with a cultural atlas in collaboration with a core group of senior men and women. Classification Dixon (2002), who rejects the validity of Pama–Nyungan, accepts that Yanyuwa is demonstrably related to Warluwara and languages closely related to it. Speech styles In Yanyuwa, certain words have synonyms used to replace the everyday term in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]