Yankunytjatjara language
E295952
The Yankunytjatjara language is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Desert group, traditionally spoken by the Yankunytjatjara people of central Australia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yankunytjatjara language canonical | 9 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Aboriginal language
ⓘ
Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ Western Desert language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Jangkundjara
ⓘ
Yankunytjatjara ⓘ
surface form:
Yankuntjatjara
Yankunytjatjara ⓘ |
| basicWordOrder |
flexible word order
ⓘ
often SOV ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | Australian macro-area ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ngaanyatjarra language
ⓘ
Ngaanyatjarra language ⓘ
surface form:
Ngaatjatjarra language
Pitjantjatjara language ⓘ |
| country | Australia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yankunytjatjara people ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRole |
key carrier of Yankunytjatjara law and culture
ⓘ
used in songlines and traditional narratives ⓘ |
| hasDialects | Yankunytjatjara dialects ⓘ |
| hasDocumentation | grammars and dictionaries by linguists ⓘ |
| hasDomain |
kinship terminology
ⓘ
spiritual and ceremonial vocabulary ⓘ traditional ecological knowledge ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalFeature |
case-marking suffixes
ⓘ
ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | agglutinative ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSpeakers | small Indigenous community population ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
retroflex consonants
ⓘ
three-vowel system ⓘ |
| hasStandardOrthography | community-developed Latin-based orthography ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | kdd ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn | community language programs in central Australia ⓘ |
| languageBranch |
Western Desert region
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Desert
|
| languageFamily |
Pama–Nyungan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Pama–Nyungan
|
| lexicalSimilarityWith | Pitjantjatjara language ⓘ |
| partOf |
Western Desert language
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Desert language continuum
|
| region | central Australia ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Yankunytjatjara people ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Northern Territory
ⓘ
South Australia ⓘ Western Australia ⓘ |
| status | endangered ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Western Desert language
ⓘ
surface form:
Western Desert language group
|
| traditionalTerritory |
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands
ⓘ
surface form:
Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands
|
| usedFor |
ceremonial contexts
ⓘ
everyday communication among Yankunytjatjara people ⓘ oral storytelling ⓘ |
| usedInEducation | bilingual education programs in central Australia ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.