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{{Short description|Nearly extinct dialect of the Bardi language of Western Australia}}
{{About|a language of Western Australia|a language of the Patani region|Kelantan-Pattani Malay|an Arabic-based alphabet|Jawi alphabet}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Jawi
| altname          = Djawi, Djaui
| region           = [[Western Australia]]
| ethnicity        = [[Jawi people|Jawi]]
| extinct          = by 2003
| ref              = e18
| refname          = Djawi
| familycolor      = Australian
| fam1             = [[Nyulnyulan languages|Nyulnyulan]]
| fam2             = [[Nyulnyul language|Nyulnyul]]
| fam3             = [[Bardi language|Bardi]]
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]]
| iso3             = djw
| glotto           = djaw1238
| glottorefname    = Djawi
| aiatsis          = K16
| aiatsisname      = Jawi (Malay)
}}
'''Jawi'''<ref name="AIATSIS" /> or '''Djawi'''<ref name="e18" /><ref name="ISO 639-3/RA">{{cite web |url=http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=djw |title=Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: djw |publisher=SIL International |access-date=2017-07-03 |quote=Name: Djawi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| editor-last1= Hammarström| editor-first1 = Harald| editor-last2 = Forke| editor-first2 = Robert| editor-last3 = Haspelmath| editor-first3 = Martin| editor-last4 = Bank| editor-first4 = Sebastian| year = 2020|title = Djawi | work = [[Glottolog]] 4.3| url = https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/djaw1238}}</ref> or '''Djaui''',<ref name="AIATSIS" /> is a [[moribund language|nearly extinct]] dialect of the [[Bardi language]] of [[Western Australia]], the traditional language of the [[Jawi people]]. There are no longer any known [[fluency|fluent]] speakers, but there may be some partial speakers.<ref name="McGregor">{{cite book |author=McGregor, William |year=2004 |title=The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia |location=London, New York |publisher=Taylor & Francis |pages=40–42}}</ref>
The name has also been spelt '''Chowie''', '''Djaoi''', '''Djau''', '''Dyao''', and '''Dyawi'''.
==Classification==
Jawi is a [[Non-Pama–Nyungan languages|Non-Pama–Nyungan language]] of the [[Nyulnyulan languages|Nyulnyulan family]], most closely related to [[Bardi language|Bardi]].<ref name="McGregor" /> Bowern discusses how Jawi and Bardi may have converged within the last hundred years.<ref>Bowern, C. "A Grammar of Bardi" Berlin: Mouton, 2012, Chapter 1.</ref> Jawi people were hit hard by [[influenza]]<ref>Sunday Island Mission Records</ref> in the early years of the 20th century. Their traditional lands are [[Sunday Island (King Sound)|Sunday Island]] and the islands of the [[Buccaneer Archipelago]] to the northeast.
==References==
[[File:Traditional lands of Australian Aboriginal Tribes around Derby.png|thumb|right|Traditional lands of [[Australian Aboriginal|Aboriginal]] tribes around [[Derby, Western Australia|Derby, WA]]]]
===Cited references===
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===General references===
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* {{cite journal |author=Bird, W. |year=1910 |title=Some remarks on the grammatical construction of the Chowie language, as spoken by the Buccaneer Islanders, North-Western Australia |journal=Anthropos |volume=5 |pages=454–456}}
* {{cite journal |author=Bird, W. |year=1915 |title=A short vocabulary of the Chowie-language of the Buccaneer Islanders (Sunday Islanders) north western Australia |journal=Anthropos |volume=10 |pages=180–186}}
* Bird, W.; Hadley, S. (not dated). "Native vocabulary: Sunday Island", unpublished manuscript.
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==Further reading==
*{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/963327|website=Academia.edu|title=History of research on Bardi and Jawi|date=2002|first=Claire|last=Bowen|publisher=Rice University|quote=revised and expanded version of a talk given at the Fourth International Workshop on Australian Languages at University of Aarhus, June 2002}}
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