Pintupi-Luritja

Pintupi-Luritja is a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Australia. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Pintupi () is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language (WDL).

Pintupi is a variety of the Western Desert Language spoken by indigenous people whose traditional lands are in the area between Lake Macdonald and Lake Mackay, stretching from Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory to Jupiter Well (west of Pollock Hills) in Western Australia. These people moved (or were forced to move) into the indigenous communities of Papunya and Haasts Bluff in the west of the Northern Territory in the 1940s–1980s. The last Pintupi people to leave their traditional lifestyle in the desert came into Kiwirrkura in 1984. Over recent decades they have moved back into their traditional country, setting up the communities of Kintore (in Pintupi known as Walungurru) in the Northern Territory, Kiwirrkura and Jupiter Well (in Pintupi Puntutjarrpa) in Western Australia.

Children who were born in Papunya and Haasts Bluff grew up speaking a new variety of Pintupi, now known as Pintupi-Luritja, due to their close contact with speakers of Arrernte, Warlpiri and other varieties of the WDL. This has continued through the moves west so that most Pintupi people today speak Pintupi-Luritja, although there remains a clear distinction between the more western and eastern varieties.

From Wikipedia · Pintupi dialect · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Nganana maru tjuta, tjulkura tjuta, manta yurungka parrari nyinapayi tjutanya liipulala nyinanyi, nganana yanangu maru tjuta wiya kuyakuya. Yuwankarrangkuya palya nintingku kulini. Tjanaya palya kutjupa tjutaku tjukarurru nyinanytjaku, walytja tjuta nguwanpa, mingarrtjuwiya. Tjungungku palyangku kurrunpa kutjungku. Wangka ngaangku nganananya tjakultjunanyi rapa ngaranytjaku kutjupa tjuta nguwanpa.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Pintupi-Luritja

Meaning	Word	Romanization
person	yanaNuriNu*
name	manCi*
eye	kuru*
ear	kurata*
nose	mulya*
tooth	katiti*
tongue	Calinpa*
hand	mara*
blood	milkali*
bone	tarka*
skin	minara*
knee	muti*
breast	mimi*
liver	Caru*
water	kapi*
fire	kuniNarpa*
star	pintiri*
stone	puli*
mountain	yapu*
tree	Nana*
leaf	parka*
night	muNa*
dog	papa*
one	kuCu*
two	kuCara*
I	Nayulu*
you	nuntu*
we	pula*
drink	kurNalymanu*
see	naNu*