Wakka Wakka language
The Wakka Wakka language, also spelt Waga, or Wakawaka, is an extinct Pama–Nyungan language formerly spoken by the Wakka Wakka people, an Aboriginal Australian nation near Brisbane, Australia.[3]
| Waga | |
|---|---|
| Wakawaka | |
| Region | Queensland |
| Ethnicity | Wakka Wakka, Djakunda, Dalla (Wulili, Baruŋgam) |
| Extinct | 1965 |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wkw |
| Glottolog | waka1274 |
| AIATSIS[1] | E28 |
| ELP | Waka-Waka |
| Duungidjawu[2] | |
Kaiabara/Gayabara, Nguwera/Ngoera, and Buyibara may be varieties or alternative names.
Map of traditional lands of Aboriginal Australians around Brisbane.
References
- E28 Waga at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Endangered Languages Project data for Duungidjawu.
- Waka Waka - ATSIDA
- Kite, Suzanne; Wurm, Stephen (2004). The Duungidjawu Language of the Southeast Queensland: Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary. Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-85883-550-4.
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