Jawi or Djawi or Djaui, is a nearly extinct dialect of the

Bardi language Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is an endangered Australian Aboriginal language in the Nyulnyulan languages, Nyulnyulan family, mutually intelligible with Jawi dialect, Jawi and possibly other dialects. It is spoken by the Bardi people at the tip o ...

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, the traditional language of the Jawi people. There are no longer any known fluent speakers, but there may be some partial speakers. The name has also been spelt Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Dyao, and Dyawi.

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Jawi is a Non-Pama–Nyungan language of the Nyulnyulan family, most closely related to Bardi. Bowern discusses how Jawi and Bardi may have converged within the last hundred years. Jawi people were hit hard by

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Sunday Island Mission Records in the early years of the 20th century. Their traditional lands are Sunday Island and the islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago to the northeast.

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Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal Tribes around Derby

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* * * Bird, W.; Hadley, S. (not dated). "Native vocabulary: Sunday Island", unpublished manuscript.

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