| Yawuru | |
|---|---|
| Region | Australia |
| Ethnicity | Yawuru, Jukun |
Native speakers | 152 (2021 census)[1] |
Nyulnyulan
| |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ywr |
| Glottolog | yawu1244 |
| AIATSIS[2] | K1 |
| ELP | Yawuru |
 Map of the traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal tribes around Derby, Western Australia. Yawuru is the dark blue.[3] | |
Yawuru is a Western Nyulnyulan language spoken on the coast south of Broome in Western Australia.
Grammatically it resembles other Nyulnyulan languages. It has a relatively free word order.[4]
By the late 1990s the number of fluent speakers of Yawuru had dropped to a handful but a few younger people dedicated themselves to learning the language and they are now teaching it in schools and in adult classes, in Broome.[5]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census". Retrieved 13 October 2022.
- ^ K1 Yawuru at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ This map is indicative only.
- ^ Yawuru Ngan-ga, a Phrasebook of the Yawuru Language, Magabala, 1995.
- ^ "Yawuru Language". Nyamba Buru Yawuru. Retrieved 26 July 2023.