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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 reasons for the spelling variations are that some WDL dialects do not allow vowel-initial words—in these varieties the word begins with y; some orthographies use underlining (e.g. ṉ) to indicate a retroflex consonant, while others use a digraph (e.g. rn).
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 ...
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 ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by the French author Alexandre Dumas (père) serialized from 1844 to 1846. It is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers .
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