Concept information
Preferred term
mwpKala Lagaw Ya
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Kala Lagaw Ya (correctly Kalaw Lagaw Ya [back/west+gen place+gen speech]; several other names; see below) is a language belonging to all the western and central Torres Strait Islands, Queensland, Australia. On some islands it has now largely been replaced by Brokan (Torres Strait Creole English). It has the highest speaker population of any indigenous language within Australian territory, with between 3000 and 4000 people speaking the language (Ethnologue) as their first language.
ISO 639-3 code
- mwp
Notation
- mwp
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/mwp
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