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Warrwa language

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Native to
  
Australia

Glottolog
  
warr1258

ISO 639-3
  
wwr

Region
  
West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia

Extinct
  
2 speakers reported in 2001

Language family
  
Nyulnyulan Eastern Nyigina? Warrwa

The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia. It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.

Grammar

Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically. Attributive adjectives and possessive adjectives preceded the nouns they modified.

References

Warrwa language Wikipedia