Pitjantjatjara (linguistics)
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| Pitjantjatjara | ||
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| Spoken in: | Northwest South Australia | |
| Total speakers: | 2,500 | |
| Language family: | Pama-Nyungan Southwest Wati Western Desert Pitjantjatjara |
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| Writing system: | Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | aus | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | pjt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Pitjantjatjara is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia. It is mutually intelligible with other varieties of the Western Desert language and is particularly closely related to Yankunytjatjara.
Only about 20% of Pitjantjatjara speakers know English—the rest are monolingual. Between 50% and 70% are literate in their own language.
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[edit] External links
- Ngapartji Online course of Pitjantjatjara language, and related performance event 2006
- Ethnologue report for language code:pjt
- Languages and dialects associated with Uluru
- Omniglot.com]
