Jawi dialect

This article is about a language of Western Australia. For a language of the Patani region, see Kelantan-Pattani Malay. For an Arabic-based alphabet, see Jawi alphabet.

Jawi
Djawi, Djaui
RegionWestern Australia
EthnicityJawi
Extinctby 2003[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3djw
Glottologdjaw1238
AIATSIS[2]K16 Jawi (Malay)
ELPJawi

Jawi[2] or Djawi[1][3][4] or Djaui,[2] is a nearly extinct dialect of the Bardi language of Western Australia, the traditional language of the Jawi people. There are no longer any known fluent speakers, but there may be some partial speakers.[5]

The name has also been spelt Chowie, Djaoi, Djau, Dyao, and Dyawi.

  1. ^ a b Djawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c K16 Jawi (Malay) at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ "Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: djw". SIL International. Retrieved 3 July 2017. Name: Djawi
  4. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Djawi". Glottolog 4.3.
  5. ^ McGregor, William (2004). The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia. London, New York: Taylor & Francis. pp. 40–42.