| Jawi | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Western Australia | |
| Total speakers: | None fully fluent. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. | |
| Language family: | Nyulnyulan Western Bardic Jawi | |
| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO 639-3: | djw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia A writing system is a type of Symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in Language. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Jawi is a nearly extinct Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, the traditional language of the Jawi people. In Linguistics, language death (also language extinction, linguistic extinction, and sometimes pejoratively as linguicide) is a process Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. There are no longer any known fluent speakers, but there may be some partial speakers. Fluency (also called volubility and loquaciousness) is the property of a Person or of a System that delivers Information quickly and [1]
The name has also been spelt Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Djaui, Djawi, Dyao, and Dyawi.
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Classification
Jawi is a Non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Nyulnyulan family, closest related to Bardi. The Nyulnyulan languages are a small family of closely related Australian Aboriginal languages spoken in northern Australia Bardi (also Baardi, Baard) is a moribund Australian Aboriginal language. [1]
References
Cited references
General references
- Bird, W. (1910). "Some remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie language, as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia". Anthropos 5: 454–456.
- Bird, W. (1915). "A short vocabulary of the Chowie-language of the Buccaneer Islanders (Sunday Islanders) north western Australia". Anthropos 10: 180–186.
- Bird, W. ; Hadley, S. (not dated). ‘Native vocabulary: Sunday Island’, unpublished manuscript.
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