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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.
Waka Inoue (born 1980), Japanese tarento and actress; Waka Kobori (born 2000), Japanese swimmer; Waka Nathan (born 1940), New Zealand rugby union player; Neil Waka, New Zealand broadcaster and journalist; Waka Tsukiyama, is an American-born Japanese professional wrestler; Yamada Waka (1879–1957), Japanese feminist and social reformer
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:
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.
Waka is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. References This page was last edited on 31 August 2024, at 18:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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. Bowern (2011) moved Darumbal to the Maric languages, but did not address Bayali. The two ...
Many translators of waka poems face difficulty when translating makurakotoba, because although they make up the first line, many have no substantial meaning, and it is impossible to discard the whole first line of a waka. [4] It is said [weasel words] that Sei Shōnagon often used this technique in The Pillow Book, and some earlier scholars ...