Warluwarra language
| Warluwarra | |
|---|---|
| Region | Queensland |
| Extinct | by 2009 (3 cited in 1981) |
Pama–Nyungan
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| Dialects |
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| Warluwara Sign Language | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wrb |
| Glottolog | warl1256 |
| AIATSIS[1] | G10 |
| ELP | Warluwarra |
Warluwarra is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland.
Classification
R. M. W. Dixon (2002) places Warluwara in the Southern Ngarna subgroup, along with Wagaya, Yindjilandji, and Bularnu. This is in turn related to Yanyuwa. [citation needed]
Sign
The Warluwara had a developed signed form of their language.[2]
References
- ^ G10 Warluwarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Breen, J. G. (1971). A description of the Warluwara language. MA thesis, Monash University.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Roth, Walter E. (1897). The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. (p. 273–301) Reprinted from Roth, W.E. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London, Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office, 1897; 71–90; Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera [= Warluwarra], Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa. Reprinted (1978) in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press, vol. 2.
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