The Wardaman people are a small group of Indigenous Australians living about 200km South-West of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia. They speak the Wardaman language which is said to be a near-extinct Australian Aboriginal language. Capital Darwin Government Const. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Gunwinyguan languages form the second largest family of Australian Aboriginal languages. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... Location of Katherine in Northern Territory (red) Katherine () is a town with a population of around 10,000 situated 320 km southeast of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. ... Capital Darwin Government Const. ... The Australian Aboriginal languages are a Australia, and the rest are descended linguistically from them. ...
Perhaps the most famous Wardaman person is Bill Yidumduma Harney, who is known as an advocate for Indigenous Australians, and has written several books, including his most recent, on Australian Aboriginal Astronomy, written with Hugh Cairns, entitled Dark Sparklers. Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands. ... Many of the Australian Aboriginal cultures have a strong element of astronomy. ...
Further Reading
Dark Sparklers - a description of Wardaman culture, their cosmology, and how it relates to the night sky
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