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Yankunytjatjara

Yankunytjatjara is a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Australia, by about 600 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

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Yankunytjatjara · 26.4°S 133.6°E

Yankunytjatjara (also Yankuntatjara, Jangkundjara, or Kulpantja) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages, belonging to the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the many varieties of the Western Desert Language, all of which are mutually intelligible.

Yankunytjatjara is spoken in the north-west of South Australia and is one of the most easterly of the Western Desert dialects, being spoken around the communities of Mimili, Indulkana and Fregon and across to Oodnadatta and Coober Pedy (although this latter is not on traditional Yankunytjatjara land).

From Wikipedia · Yankunytjatjara dialect · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Yankunytjatjara

MeaningWordRomanization
motherngunytju
personananNu*
nameini*
eyekuru*
earpina*
nosemulya*
toothkatiti*
tonguetyali5pa*
handmara*
bloodtyulku*
bonetarka*
skinmiri*
kneemuti*
breastipi*
liveralu*
waterkapi
firewaru*
suntyirirpi*
moonpiṟa
starkililpi*
stonepuli*
mountainapu*
treepanu*
leaf5alpi*
nightmuNa*
dogpapa*
fishantipina*
onekutyu*
twokutyara*
INayulu*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary

Grammar

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

Nearby languages

AntakarinyaLower Southern ArandaAustralian Aborigines Sign LanguagePitjantjatjaraWangganguruWestern ArrarntaArabanaEastern ArrernteWanggamalaKokata

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