Wajarri
[aka Watjari, Watjarri, Wadjari]Classification: Pama-Nyungan
·severely endangered
Classification: Pama-Nyungan
·severely endangered
Watjari, Watjarri, Wadjari, Wadjeri, Wadgaree, Wajeri, Wajjari, Wajari, Waian-wonga, Baialdju, Pidong, Wad'arri, Iirrawad-'ari, Irawadjari, Kurduwongga, Kurduwonga, Maliara, Miliarra, Miliara, Cheangwa, Wardal, Yajeri, Jamadj, Yamaidyi, Muliara, Malleyearra, Meloria, Waianwonga |
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Pama-Nyungan, Kartu |
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Information from: “Australasia and the Pacific” (425-577) . Stephen Wurm (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
<200
"In 1981, fifty or fewer fluent speakers were reported out of an ethnic group of fewer than 200. The people generally speak English, and the number of speakers is considerably lower today."
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
<200
Speaker number and ethnic population data: (1981 W. Douglas 1981).
Western Australia, Mt. Magnet to Geraldton.
Information from: “How many languages were spoken in Australia?” . Claire Bowern (2011)
Information from: “Handbook of Western Australian Aboriginal Languages South of the Kimberley Region” . Nicholas Thieberger (1996) Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University
"[Spoken] north of Sanford River; on Roderick River."
Information from: “Community, identity, wellbeing: The report of the Second National Indigenous Languages Survey” . Doug Marmion and Kazuko Obata and Jakelin Troy (2014)
0
~2
~5
~15
"The language has only a small number of full speakers, spread disproportionately across the older age groups."
"Comparison of data between the two
surveys indicates an increase in the number of speakers and of proficiency level. […] Languages like Wajarri can rapidly decline without a more concentrated effort to transfer the full knowledge of the language to younger generations and to get younger people using the language."