Garawa language

Infobox Language
name=Garawa
region=Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia
extinct=Late 20^th century.
familycolor=Australian
iso2=aus
iso3=gbc
fam1= Macro-Pama-Nyungan
fam2=Greater Pama-Nyungan

Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is a recently extinct Australian Aboriginal language of northern Australia.

Classification

Garawa may be related to the Pama-Nyungan languages. A dialect, Wanji or "Waanyi," is divergent enough to sometimes be considered a separate language.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

References

*cite book |last=Belfrage |first=H. |year=1992 |title=Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa |others=BA honours sub-thesis |publisher=University of Melbourne
*cite journal |last=Furby |first=Christine E. |year=1972 |title=The pronominal system of Garawa |journal=Oceanic Linguistics |volume=11 |pages=1–31 |doi=10.2307/3622731
*cite book |last=Furby |first=Edward S. |coauthors=Furby, Christine E. |year=1977 |title=A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics

External links

* [http://emsah.uq.edu.au/linguistics/austlang/garrwa/ Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gbc Ethnologue report for language code:gbc]