Yankunytjatjara dialect
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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.
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Yankunytjatjara | |
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Region | South Australia |
Ethnicity | Yankuntjatjarra |
Native speakers | 600 (2021 census)[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kdd |
Glottolog | yank1247 |
AIATSIS[2] | C4 |
ELP | Yankunytjatjara |
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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).[3]