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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] Kaiabara/Gayabara, Nguwera/Ngoera, and Buyibara may be varieties or alternative names.
Wakka Wakka language belongs to the Waka–Kabic branch of the Pama-Nyungan languages.Linguistic work by the Presbyterian minister and anthropologist John Mathew and, more recently, by linguists such as Nils Holmer, provided materials that conserved elements of the grammar and vocabularly.
The term ama is a word in the Polynesian and Micronesian languages to describe the outrigger part of a canoe to provide stability. Today, among the various Polynesian countries, the word ama is often used together with the word vaka (Cook Islands) or waka or va'a (Samoa Islands, Tahiti), cognate words in various Polynesian languages to describe a canoe.
Miyan may be a single language, Wakawaka. Batjala, a possible dialect of Gubbi Gubbi, still has 89 speakers in 2021, [1] and Taribelang still has some L2 speakers. The Kingkel languages, Darumbal and Bayali, are sometimes believed to be Waka-Kabic.
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The Barunggam language shared many words with the neighboring languages, including Jarowair [3] to the east, Wakka Wakka to the north and Mandandanji to the west. [4] Kite and Wurm describe Barunggam as a dialect of Wakka Wakka. [1] Tindale gives the traditional lands for the Barunggam who spoke the language as:
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Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) From an alternative language : This is a redirect from a page name in English to a page name in an as yet undetermined or uncoded language . These words may directly translate or they may be related words, names or phrases.