Garrwa, also spelt Garawa, Gaarwa, or Karawa and also known as Leearrawa, is an

Australian Aboriginal language The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

spoken by the

Garrwa people The Garrwa people, also spelt Karawa and Garawa, are an Aboriginal Australian people living in the Northern Territory, whose traditional lands extended from east of the McArthur River at Borroloola to Doomadgee and the Nicholson River in Queens ...

of a northern region of the

Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Au ...

of Australia.

Phonology

Vowels

Consonants

References

* * * Series B, no. 42. *Mushin, Ilana. 2012. ''A grammar of Garrwa.'' Berlin: de Gruyter.

External links

Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive
{{Australian Aboriginal languages Garawan languages