Wardaman

language
name=Wardaman
familycolor=Australian
states=Australia
region=Northern Territory
iso3=wrr
speakers=50 (1983)
fam2=Ginwinyguan
fam3=Yangmanic

The Wardaman people are a small group of Indigenous Australians living about 200km South-West of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia. They speak the Wardaman language which is said to be a near-extinct Australian Aboriginal language.

Perhaps the most famous Wardaman person is Bill Yidumduma Harney, who is known as an advocate for Indigenous Australians, and has written several books, including his most recent, on Australian Aboriginal Astronomy, written with Hugh Cairns, entitled "Dark Sparklers".

Further reading

* [http://www.darksparklers.com/ Dark Sparklers] - a description of Wardaman culture, their cosmology, and how it relates to the night sky
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wrr Ethnologue entry for Wardaman]