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The Ngaanyatjarra, also known (along with the Pini) as the Nana, [a] are an Indigenous Australian cultural group of Western Australia. They are located in the Goldfields-Esperance region, as well as Northern Territory .
Ngaanyatjarra ([ˈŋɐːn̪ɐt̪ɐrɐ]; also Ngaanyatjara, Ngaanjatjarra) is a dialect of the Western Desert language spoken primarily by the Ngaanyatjarra people. It is very similar to its close neighbour Ngaatjatjarra , with which it is highly mutually intelligible .
The ethnonym Ngaatjatjarra essentially translates to "ngaatja-having", ngaatja meaning "this, here" and -tjarra meaning "with, having". Compare the neighbouring people Ngaanyatjarra , which translates to " ngaanya -having", where instead "this, here" translates to ngaanya .
Flag Indigenous Australian cultural regions; the Western Desert cultural bloc is marked "Desert.". Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly approximate to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves.
The 2021 ABS Census indicated that the region's 1,358 residents comprised 48.5% males and 51.5% females, with 84.5% of the population being Indigenous Australians.The Ngaanyatjarraku community has a greater proportion of younger people than the overall Australian population and a lesser proportion of older people, reflected by the median age of 30 years of age compared with 38 Australia-wide.
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 central and central-western desert.
The name Pitjantjatjara derives from the word pitjantja, a nominalised form of the verb "go" (equivalent to the English "going" used as a noun). Combined with the comitative suffix -tjara, it means something like "pitjantja-having" (i.e. the variety that uses the word pitjantja for "going").
Warakurna is a large Aboriginal community, located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku and is situated on the Great Central Road (part of the Outback Way ultimately connecting Perth to Cairns diagonally across Australia). [3]