Worrorra language
Worrorra | |
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Region | Western Australia |
Native speakers | 7 (2016 census)[1] |
Wororan
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Dialects |
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Worora Kinship Sign Language | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
unp – inclusive codeIndividual codes: wro – Worrorraxgu – Unggumixud – Umiidaxun – Unggarranggujbw – Yawijibaya |
Glottolog |
west2435 [3] |
AIATSIS[4] |
K17 Worrorra, K14 Unggumi, K49 Umiida, K55* Unggarrangu, K53* Yawijibaya |
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.[6]
An alleged Maialnga language was a reported clan name of Worrorra proper that could not be confirmed with speakers.[7]
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,[8] but it is not clear from records that it was particularly well developed compared to other Australian Aboriginal sign languages.[9]
References
- ↑ "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs.gov.au. ABS. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
- ↑ Clendon (1994, 2000), Love (2000), cited in Dixon 2002
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Worrorran". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Worrorra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (see the info box for additional links)
- ↑ map is indicative only.
- ↑ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia? Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine.", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected Archived 2012-07-03 at the Wayback Machine. February 6, 2012)
- ↑ Tindale, Norman B. (Norman Barnett); Jones, Rhys (1974), Aboriginal tribes of Australia : their terrain, environmental controls, distribution, limits, and proper names, University of California Press ; Canberra : Australian National University Press, ISBN 978-0-520-02005-4
- ↑ Love, J.R.B. (1941). Worora kinship gestures, Reprinted in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press, 1978, vol. 2, pp. 403–405.
- ↑ Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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