Ngaanyatjarra dialect
| Ngaanyatjarra | |
|---|---|
| Ngaanjatjarra, Ngaanyatjara, Nyanganyatjara | |
| Native to | Australia |
| Region | Western Australia; Warburton Ranges. |
| Ethnicity | Ngaanyatjarra |
Native speakers | 700 (2005) to 1,000 (2006 census)[1] |
|
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ntj |
| Glottolog |
ngaa1240[2] |
| AIATSIS[1] |
A38 |
Ngaanyatjarra (also Ngaanyatjara, Ngaanjatjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language and is very similar to its close neighbour Ngaatjatjarra, with which it is highly mutually intelligible.
Most Ngaanyatjarra people live in one of the communities of Warburton, Warakurna, Tjukurla, Papulankutja (Blackstone), Mantamaru (Jameson) or Kaltukatjara (Docker River). Some have moved to Cosmo Newbery and Laverton in the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia.
Origin of the name
The name Ngaanyatjarra derives from the word ngaanya 'this' which, combined with the comitative suffix -tjarra means "having ngaanya (as the word for "this"). This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Ngaatjatjarra, which has ngaatja for 'this'.
References
- 1 2 Ngaanyatjarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngaanyatjarra". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Glass, Amee and Hackett, Dorothy. 1979. Ngaanyatjarra texts. New Revised edition of Pitjantjatjara texts (1969). Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. ISBN 0-391-01683-0.
- Glass, Amee and Hackett, Dorothy. 2003. Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English Dictionary. IAD press, Alice Springs. ISBN 1-86465-053-2
External links
- ELAR archive of Western Desert Special Speech Styles Project