Yawuru
The Yawuru, also spelt Jawuru, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Language A Japanese linguist, Hosokawa Kōmei (細川弘明), compiled the first basic dictionary of the Yawuru language in 1988, and followed it up with a comprehensive descriptive grammar in 2011. Country Their territory, much of it of open saltmarsh, encompasses the area from the eastern shores of Roebuck Bay south of Roebuck Plains through to the southern end of Thangoo Station and within 5 miles of Cape Villaret. Their inland extension ran close to Mandikarakapo (Dampier Downs). Norman Tindale's overall estimate of their territory posits a domain of roughly . Their neighbouring tribes were the Jukan to the north, and, running clockwise, the Warrwa northeast, the Nyigina on the eastern hinterland, and on their southern frontier the Karajarri, The border with the latter is marked by an ecological transition from the coastal saltmarsh plains to the dense, sandy pindan scrubland occupied by the Karajarri. Social structure and beliefs The Yawuru people in Broome also include the Djugun and the two are distinguished only by minor dialectal differences. In Yawuru cosmology, the primordial time and its world (bugarrigarra) is still present in its creative force,