Warrwa language

{{Short description|Extinct Australian Aboriginal language}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Warrwa

|states = Australia

|region = West Kimberley, Derby region of Western Australia

|extinct = The last speaker, Maudie Lennard, died in 2016.

|ref = e25

|familycolor= Australian

|fam1=Nyulnyulan

|fam2=Eastern

|fam3=Nyigina?

|iso3= wwr

|glotto=warr1258

|glottorefname=Warrwa

|aiatsis=K10

|map=File:Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal Tribes around Derby.png

|mapcaption=Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Warrwa is in green.map is indicative only.

}}

The Warrwa language is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome, Western Australia.[http://www.llmap.org/languages/wwr.html llmao.org][http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_wrw Wals.info] It may have been a dialect of Nyigina. It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wwr Ethnologue.com]