Region Western Australia | Glottolog west2435 | |
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Dialects Worrorra
Unggumi
Yawidjibara
Windjarumi
Unggarrangu
Umiida Signed forms Worora Kinship Sign Language ISO 639-3 unp – inclusive code
Individual codes:
wro – Worrorra
xgu – Unggumi
xud – Umiida
xun – Unggarranggu
jbw – Yawijibaya AIATSIS K17 Worrorra, K14 Unggumi, K49 Umiida, K55* Unggarrangu, K53* Yawijibaya Language family Wororan: (Western) > Worrorra Native speakers 4 (2005) to 22 (2006 census) | ||
Worrorra (Worora), or Western Worrorran, is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language of northern Western Australia.
Worrorra is a dialect cluster; Bowern (2011) recognizes five languages: Worrorra proper, Unggumi, Yawijibaya, Unggarranggu, and Umiida.
An alleged Maialnga language was a reported clan name of Worrorra proper that could not be confirmed with speakers (Tyndale 1974).
Sign language
The Worora have (or at one point had) a signed form of their language, used for speaking to kin in certain taboo relationships, but it is not clear from records that it was particularly well developed compared to other Australian Aboriginal sign languages.
References
Worrorra language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA