Glottolog 5.1 - Wardaman

Spoken L1 Language: Wardaman

Classification

▼Yangmanic (3)

Comments on subclassification

Francesca C. Merlan 1994

Endangerment

AES status:: moribund
Source:: Campbell, Lyle and Lee, Nala Huiying and Okura, Eve and Simpson, Sean and Ueki, Kaori 2022
Comment:: Wardaman (2580-wrr) = Severely Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available) (Younger Wardaman people - in my observation, including at least everyone born after the Second World War - do not speak the language actively, but use at most the occasional word and phrase.)
(see Merlan 1994)

Glottocode: ward1246
ISO 639-3: wrr

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Alternative names

aiatsis:: Wadaman; Wadderman; Waderman; Waduman; Wardaman; Wardeman; Warduman; Wartaman; Wordaman
elcat:: Wadaman; Wadderman; Waderman; Waduman; Warda'man; Wardaman; Wardman; Warduman; Wartaman; Wordaman
lexvo:: Lenga wardaman [pms]; Wardaman [en]; Wardaman language [en]
moseley & asher (1994):: Wardaman
ruhlen (1987):: Wardaman
wals:: Wardaman

Countries

Australia [AU]

References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Francesca C. Merlan 1994	A Grammar of Wardaman: A Language of the Northern territory of Australia	1994	633	grammar	cldf, degruyter, glossa, hh, langsci, mpieva, ozbib
Harvey, Mark 1998	Review of Merlan, F, 1994 A grammar of Wardaman: a language of the Northern Territory of Australia	1998	5	grammar	ozbib
Dixon, R. M. W. 1996	Review of Merlan, Francesca, 1993 A grammar of Wardaman, a language of the Northern Territory of Australia	1996	4	grammar	ozbib
Croft, William 2007	Intonation Units and Grammatical Structure in Wardaman and in Cross-linguistic Perspective	2007	39	grammar_sketch	haspelmath, langsci, ozbib
Francesca Merlan and Steven Powell Roberts and Alan Rumsey 1997	New Guinea 'Classificatory Verbs' and Australian Noun Classification: A typological comparison	1997	41	specific_feature	hh, ozbib, seifart
na nd	World Oral Literature Project			text	cldf
Spencer, Baldwin 1914	Native tribes of the northern territory of Australia	1914	536	ethnographic, wordlist	hh
Arthur Capell 1940, 1940	The Classification of Languages in North and North-West Australia	1940	62	overview, comparative, wordlist	cldf, hh, ozbib
Schultze-Berndt, Eva 2002	Grammaticalized restrictives on adverbials and secondary predicates: Evidence from Australian languages	2002	34	comparative	langsci, ozbib
McConvell, Patrick and Simpson, Jane 2009	Moving along the grammaticalisation path: Locative and Allative marking of non-finite clauses and secondary predications in Australian languages	2009	32	comparative	ozbib
Mark Harvey 2003	The Evolution of object enclitic paradigms in the Eastern Daly language family	2003	17	overview, comparative	hh, ozbib, zurich
na nd	Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database			comparative	cldf
Bowern, Claire 2011	How many languages were spoken in Australia?	2011		comparative	cldf
ed., Christopher Moseley 2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger	2010		comparative	cldf
na 2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	2009		comparative	cldf
McConvell, Patrick 2002	Linguistic stratigraphy and native title: the case of ethnonyms	2002	32	overview	hh, ozbib
Raymond, Elsie and others 1999	Wardaman ethnobiology: Aboriginal plant and animal knowledge from the Flora river and south-west Katherine region, N Australia	1999	191		ozbib
McConvell, Patrick 2009	'Where the spear sticks up': the variety of locatives in placenames in the Victoria River District, Northern Territory	2009	44		ozbib
McConvell, Patrick 1985	Time perspective in Aboriginal culture: two approaches to the origin of subsections	1985	28		ozbib
No Author Stated 2001	Language of the month 12: Wardaman	2001	3		ozbib
Collins, Emma 1993	Language loss and language retrieval: a personal item report	1993	3		ozbib
Capell, Arthur 1969	Économie des changements phonétiques en Australie	1969	20		ozbib
Nash, David G. 1990	Patrilects of the Warumungu and Warlmanpa and their neighbours	1990	12		ozbib
Mathews, Robert Hamilton 1901	Ethnological notes on the Aboriginal tribes of the Northern Territory	1901	22		ozbib
Tryon, Darrell 2007	Australasia and the Pacific	2007	30		cldf
Elkin, A. P. and Jones, Trevor A. 1957	Arnhem Land music (north Australia)	1957			ozbib
Elkin, A. P. 1953-56	Arnhem Land music (north Australia)	1953			ozbib

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