Jiwarli dialect
| Jiwarli | |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Australia |
| Ethnicity | Jiwarli |
| Extinct | 10 May 1986, with the death of Jack Butler |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dze |
| Glottolog | djiw1241 |
| AIATSIS | W28 |
| ELP | Jiwarli |
Jiwarli (also spelt Djiwarli, Tjiwarli) is an Australian Aboriginal language formerly spoken in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It is a variety of the Mantharta language of the large Pama–Nyungan family.
The last native speaker of Jiwarli, Jack Butler, died in May 1986. Prof Peter K. Austin (Linguistics Department, SOAS) collected all the available material on Jiwarli during fieldwork with Jack Butler from 1978 to 1985. He has published a volume of texts on the language and a bilingual dictionary (Jiwarli-English with English-Jiwarli finderlist); both are currently out of print.