Garrwa language
{{short description|Australian Aboriginal language}}
{{distinguish|Jarawa language (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}}
{{use Australian English|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Garrwa
| region = Northern Territory
| ethnicity = Garrwa
| speakers = {{sigfig|147|2}}
| date = 2021 census
| familycolor = Australian
| fam1 = Garrwan
| iso3 = wrk
| glotto = gara1269
| glottorefname = Garrwa
| aiatsis = N155
| notice = IPA
| altname = Garawa, Gaarwa, Karawa
Leearrawa
| states = Australia
| dia1 = Western/Light Garrwa
| dia2 = Gunindiri {{extinct}}
}}
Garrwa, also spelt Garawa, Gaarwa, or Karawa and also known as Leearrawa, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Garrwa people of a northern region of the Northern Territory of Australia.
Phonology
=Vowels=
=Consonants=
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!rowspan="2"| !colspan="3"| Peripheral ! Laminal !colspan="2"| Apical |
Bilabial
! Velar ! Palatal ! Alveolar |
---|
Stop
| {{IPA link|p}} | {{IPA link|k}} | {{IPA link|k̟}} | {{IPA link|c}} | {{IPA link|t}} | {{IPA link|ʈ}} |
Nasal
| {{IPA link|m}} | {{IPA link|ŋ}} | {{IPA link|ŋ̟}} | {{IPA link|ɲ}} | {{IPA link|n}} | {{IPA link|ɳ}} |
Lateral
| | | | {{IPA link|ʎ}} | {{IPA link|l}} | {{IPA link|ɭ}} |
Rhotic
| | | | | {{IPA link|r}} | {{IPA link|ɻ}} |
Semivowel
|colspan="2"| {{IPA link|w}} | | {{IPA link|j}} | | |
References
{{Reflist}}
- {{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 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |jstor=3622731}}
- {{cite book |last=Furby |first=Edward S. |author2=Furby, Christine E. |year=1977 |title=A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses |location=Canberra |publisher=Pacific Linguistics}} Series B, no. 42.
- Mushin, Ilana. 2012. A grammar of Garrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120411021628/http://emsah.uq.edu.au/linguistics/austlang/garrwa/ Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive]
{{Pama–Nyungan languages|Macro}}
{{Australian Aboriginal languages}}