- Wajarri language
language
name=Wajarri
familycolor=Australian
states=Australia
region=Murchison area ofWestern Australia
speakers=Possibly 25
fam2=Pama-Nyungan
fam3=Southwest
fam4=Kartu
iso2=aus|iso3=wbvWajarri is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the
Kartu languages of the large South-West branch of the Pama-Nyungan family.Wajarri country is inland from
Geraldton, Western Australia , and extends as far south and west as Mullewa, north to Cascoyne Junction and east to Meekatharra. The Yamaji Language Centre has been carrying out work on the Wajarri language since 1993 and has produced an illustrated wordlist as well as grammatical materials and a dictionary (the latter two unpublished). Sketch grammars of Wajarri have been written by Douglas, published in 1981, and by Marmion in the 1990s (the latter is an unpublished Honors thesis).People who are Wajarri speakers, or who are descended primarily from Wajarri speakers also refer to themselves as "Wajarri". The word for 'man' in Wajarri is "yamaji" and this word is also commonly used by Wajarri people to refer to themselves. Depending on the context "yamaji" may also be used to refer to other Aboriginal people, particularly people from the Murchison-Gascoyne region.
External links
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wbv Ethnologue report on Wajarri]
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