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Garrwa
Garrwa
Garawa, Gaarwa, Karawa; Leearrawa
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Garrwa
Native speakers	150 (2021 census)
Language family	Garrwan Garrwa;
Dialects	Western/Light Garrwa; Gunindiri †;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wrk
Glottolog	gara1269
AIATSIS	N155
ELP	Garrwa
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Garrwa language

Last updated January 02, 2026

Garrwa, also spelt Garawa, Gaarwa, or Karawa and also known as Leearrawa, is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Garrwa people of a northern region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Low	a

Consonants

References

↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census".
↑ N155 Garrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Belfrage, H. (1992). Aspects of verb and pronoun morphology, semantics and syntax in Garrwa. BA honours sub-thesis. University of Melbourne.
Furby, Christine E. (1972). "The pronominal system of Garawa". Oceanic Linguistics. 11 (1). University of Hawai'i Press: 1–31. doi:10.2307/3622731. JSTOR 3622731.
Furby, Edward S.; Furby, Christine E. (1977). A preliminary analysis of Garawa phrases and clauses. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series B, no. 42.
Mushin, Ilana. 2012. A grammar of Garrwa. Berlin: de Gruyter.

External links

Garawa: Australian Aboriginal Language Data from the UQ Flint Archive

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[1] Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021). "Cultural diversity: Census".

[AIATSIS-2] N155 Garrwa at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

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	Peripheral			Laminal	Apical
	Bilabial	Velar	Palatal	Alveolo- palatal	Alveolar	Retroflex
Stop	p	k	k̟	c	t	ʈ
Nasal	m	ŋ	ŋ̟	ɲ	n	ɳ
Lateral				ʎ	l	ɭ
Rhotic					r	ɻ
Semivowel	w			j

Garrwa
Garawa, Gaarwa, Karawa Leearrawa
Native to	Australia
Region	Northern Territory
Ethnicity	Garrwa
Native speakers	150 (2021 census)^[1]
Language family	Garrwan Garrwa
Dialects	Western/Light Garrwa Gunindiri †
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`wrk`
Glottolog	`gara1269`
AIATSIS ^[2]	`N155`
ELP	Garrwa
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