Warluwarra language explained

Warluwarra
Region:	Queensland
Ethnicity:	Waluwara
Extinct:	by 2009 (3 cited in 1981)
Familycolor:	Australian
Fam1:	Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:	Ngarna
Fam3:	South
Iso3:	wrb
Glotto:	warl1256
Glottorefname:	Warluwara
Dia1:	Warluwara
Dia2:	Kapula
Dia3:	Parnkarra
Sign:	Warluwara Sign Language
Aiatsis:	G10

Warluwarra is an extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Queensland. Waluwarra (also known as Warluwarra, Walugara, and Walukara) has a traditional language region in the local government area of Shire of Boulia, including Walgra Station and Wolga, from Roxborough Downs north to Carandotta Station and Urandangi on the Georgina River, on Moonah Creek to Rochedale, south-east of Pituri Creek.^[1]

Classification

R. M. W. Dixon (2002) places Warluwara in the Southern Ngarna subgroup, along with Wagaya, Yindjilandji, and Bularnu. This is in turn related to Yanyuwa.

Sign

The Warluwara had a developed signed form of their language.^[2]

References

• Book: Breen, J. G. . 1971 . A description of the Warluwara language . MA thesis, Monash University.
• Book: Dixon, R. M. W. . R. M. W. Dixon . 2002 . Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press .
• Roth, Walter E. (1897). The expression of ideas by manual signs: a sign-language. (p. 273–301) Reprinted from Roth, W.E. Ethnological studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines. London, Queensland Agent-Generals Information Office, 1897; 71–90; Information collected from the following tribes; Pitta-Pitta, Boinji, Ulaolinya, Wonkajera, Walookera [= Warluwarra], Undekerebina, Kalkadoon, Mitakoodi, Woonamurra, Goa. Reprinted (1978) in Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia. New York: Plenum Press, vol. 2.

Notes and References

1. Waluwarra. Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages map. 30 January 2020.
2. Kendon, A. (1988) Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic and Communicative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.