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The Pitjantjatjara live mostly in the northwest of South Australia, extending across the border into the Northern Territory to just south of Lake Amadeus, and west a short distance into Western Australia. The land is an inseparable and important part of their identity, and every part of it is rich with stories and meaning to aṉangu. [2]
The only word in Pitjantjatjara that uses at least one letter absent from the Pitjantjatjara alphabet is the word Jesu ("Jesus"), [16] which uses the letter s which is not present in the Pitjantjatjara alphabet. Furthermore, the letter j is only present in the digraph tj .
He is a Pitjantjatjara man who speaks five languages and sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English. Yamma is the son of Isaac Yamma, an early artist who pioneered singing Western style songs in traditional language. Starting out singing with his father and brothers Hector, Paul, and Peter, he later formed the band Piranpa.
The original meaning of the word is "human being, person", "human body" in a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Languages (which are in the Pama–Nyungan group of languages), in particular Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara.
The Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people (aṉangu) had lived in this area for many thousands of years.Even after the British began to colonise the Australian continent from 1788 onwards, and the colonisation of South Australia from 1836, the aṉangu remained more or less undisturbed for many more years, apart from very occasional encounters with a variety of European explorers.
The feature of direct participation awards audiences opportunities to learn Pitjantjatjara words and phrases, thus tying-in the show with the language focus of the larger project. As a whole, Sometimes argues, " Ngapartji Ngapartji […] exposed the general public to Indigenous language in an emotive context – theatre – providing a platform ...
Pages in category "Pitjantjatjara" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The word kulilaya approximates to the meaning of "listen", and was the name of a land rights protest song that was sung frequently in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and since then sung regularly by the Ernabella Choir, the APY Choir, and the Iwiri Choir. [5]