The Warrwa language is an extinct

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 ...

which was formerly spoken in the Derby Region of Western Australia near Broome,

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. It may have been a dialect of

Nyigina The Nyikina people (also spelt Nyigina and Nyikena, and listed as Njikena by Tindale) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. They come from the lower Fitzroy River (which they call ''mardoowarra''). ...

. It was also known as Warrawai or Warwa.

Grammar

Warrwa employed a variety of word orders grammatically.

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s and

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s preceded the

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s they modified.McGregor, William. (1994). Warrwa. München: Lincom Europa.

References

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