Garawa language

Garawa
Region	Northern Territory, Australia
Native speakers	40 (2005) to 87 (2006 census)[1]
Language family	Garrwan Garawa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrk
Glottolog	gara1269[2]
AIATSIS[1]	N155

Garawa (or Garrwa, Gaarwa, Karawa, Leearrawa) is an Australian Aboriginal language of northern Australia.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

Consonants

	Peripheral			Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolo- palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	k̟	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ŋ̟	ɲ	n	ɳ
Lateral				ʎ	l	m
Rhotic					ɲ	ɻ
Semivowel	w			j

References

1. Garawa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Garawa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Belfrage, H. (1992). Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa. BA honours sub-thesis. University of Melbourne.
• Furby, Christine E. (1972). "The pronominal system of Garawa". Oceanic Linguistics (University of Hawai'i Press) 11 (1): 1–31. doi:10.2307/3622731. JSTOR 3622731.
• Furby, Edward S.; Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 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