Editing Warrongo language (section)

==Sociolinguistic situation==
Nowadays people identifying themselves as [[Warrongo people|Warrongo]] live both within traditional Warrongo territory ([[Mount Garnet, Queensland|Mount Garnet]]) and outside it ([[Palm Island, Queensland|Palm Island]], [[Townsville]], [[Ingham, Queensland|Ingham]], [[Cardwell, Queensland|Cardwell]], and [[Cairns]]).{{sfn|Tsunoda|2011|p=51}} The language has been extinct since the last speaker, [[Alf Palmer]], died in 1981. In the late 1990s or early 2000s a language revival movement started by a community of people, most of them grandchildren of the last speakers, the central figure being Rachel Cummins, the granddaughter of Alf Palmer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Institute |first=Linguapax |url=https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB05597841 |title=Linguapax Asia : a retrospective edition of language and human rights issues : collected proceedings of Linguapax Asia symposia 2004-2009 |last2=Asia |first2=Linguapax |date=2010 |publisher=Linguapax Asia |pages=13 |language=en}}</ref>{{sfn|Tsunoda|Tsunoda|2010|p=13}} The community had contacted Tsunoda, the linguist who worked with the last speakers in the 1970s, and between 2002 and 2006 he conducted 5 sessions of lessons, of 4–5 days each. As a result, the language seems to have acquired a limited set of symbolic functions. It has begun to be used in teasing between children, and as a source of personal names.{{sfn|Tsunoda|Tsunoda|2010|pp=15–16}}