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Ngaanyatjarra (IPA: [ˈŋɐːn̪ɐt̪ɐrɐ]; also Ngaanyatjara, Ngaanjatjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family . It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language and is very similar to its close neighbour Ngaatjatjarra , with which it is highly mutually intelligible.
Ngaanyatjarra is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati branch of the Pama-Nyungan languages. [1] Ngaatjatjarra is mutually intelligible with Ngaanyatjarra, and both are treated as dialects of the one language.
The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family.. The name Wati tends to be used when considering the various varieties to be distinct languages, Western Desert when considering them dialects of a single language, or Wati as Warnman plus the Western Desert cluster.
Ngaatjatjarra (also Ngaatjatjara, Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language.It is spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600 000 square kilometres of the arid central and central-western desert.
The term, which embraces several distinct "tribes" or peoples, in particular the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara groups, is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable: . The term
The practised patrilocal residence, and their marriage arrangements were based on for class system. [20] Father's father, father, son, son's son and their brothers inherited a totem (tjukur/tuma) which bore associations with specific topographical features of the landscape that evoked the movements of the creative being in their dreaming. [20]
The settlement is located in the Gibson Desert in Western Australia, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700 kilometres (430 mi) west of Alice Springs. Although it is situated outside of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Kiwirrkurra is affiliated with the Ngaanyatjarra Council. [7] It is one of 11 communities in the council area. [14]
Warburton, Warburton Ranges or Milyirrtjarra (in the Ngaanyatjarra dialect) is an Aboriginal Australian community in Western Australia, just to the south of the Gibson Desert and located on the Great Central Road (part of the Outback Way) and Gunbarrel Highway. At the 2016 census, Warburton had a population of 576. [3] [4]