Muruwari language

Muruwari
Region Queensland and New South Wales, Australia
Extinct 20th century
Pama–Nyungan
  • Southeast
    • New South Wales
      • Muruwari
Language codes
ISO 639-3 zmu
Glottolog muru1266[1]
AIATSIS[2] D32
Muruwari (green) among other Pama–Nyungan languages (tan)

Muruwari (also Muruwarri, Murawari, Murawarri) is an Australian Aboriginal language, an isolate within the Pama–Nyungan family.

Muruwari means 'to fall (warri) with a fighting club (murru) in one's hand'.

The Muruwari language was collated from many tapes of language material recorded by Jimmy Barker of Brewarrina, Emily Horneville (Mrs Ornable) and Shillin Jackson of Goodooga, and Robin Campbell of Weilmoringle. The Murawari language was first published by R. H. Mathews in the early 1900s and again by Ian Sims, Judy Trefry, Janet Mathews, and Lynette F. Oates (1988).


Example sentence

  • "Pitara yaan Muruwariki"
  • Meaning: "Muruwari is good, sweet talk".

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Muruwari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Muruwari at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

See also



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