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Pitjantjatjara (/ p ɪ tʃ ən tʃ ə ˈ tʃ ɑː r ə /; [3] Pitjantjatjara: [ˈpɪɟanɟaɟaɾa] or [ˈpɪɟanɟaɾa]) [4] is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia.
The Pitjantjatjara (/ ˌ p ɪ tʃ ən tʃ ə ˈ tʃ ɑːr ə /; [1] Pitjantjatjara: [ˈpɪɟanɟaɟaɾa] or [ˈpɪɟanɟaɾa]) are an Aboriginal people of the Central Australian desert near Uluru. They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra and their languages are, to a large extent, mutually intelligible (all are ...
Ngaatjatjarra is mutually intelligible with Ngaanyatjarra, and both are treated as dialects of the one language. [ 2 ] Ngaanya literally means "this" (that is, the demonstrative pronoun ) and -tjarra means "with/having" (the comitative suffix); the compound term means "those that use 'ngaanya' to say 'this'".
Yankunytjatjara is one of the many dialects of the Western Desert language and is very similar to the better known, more widely spoken Pitjantjatjara. [4] According to a study carried out mainly in Coober Pedy where many speakers of both varieties reside (although the town is on what was traditionally Arabana lands), young speakers of Yankunytjatjara often borrow words from English and also ...
Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages. Country ... (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, ...
It is now used as an Aboriginal endonym by a wide range of Western Desert Language (WDL) peoples to describe themselves. [1] It is rarely or never applied to non-Aboriginal people when used in English, although the word now has a dual meaning in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara .
Pukatja (formerly Ernabella, Pitjantjatjara: Anapala) is an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia, comprising one of the six main communities on "The Lands" (the others being Amata, Pipalyatjara, Fregon/Kaltjiti, Indulkana and Mimili).
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