Pintupi language

E641348

Australian Aboriginal language Pama–Nyungan language Western Desert language

The Pintupi language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Pintupi people of the Western Desert region in central Australia.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Pintupi language group	2

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Australian Aboriginal language ⓘ Pama–Nyungan language ⓘ Western Desert language ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Luritja language NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitjantjatjara language NERFINISHED ⓘ Yankunytjatjara language NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Australia ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Pintupi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Pintupi NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDialect	Pintupi-Luritja NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDomain	kinship terminology ⓘ traditional law and ceremony ⓘ
hasLearningResource	bilingual education materials in central Australian schools ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ case-marking on nouns ⓘ rich verbal inflection ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	lamino-dental consonants ⓘ no phonemic tone ⓘ retroflex consonants ⓘ three-vowel system ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffort	community-based language maintenance projects ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	ergative–absolutive alignment ⓘ relatively free word order ⓘ
iso639-3Code	piu ⓘ
isPartOf	Western Desert language continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageFamily	Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Northern Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenBy	Pintupi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenIn	Western Desert region NERFINISHED ⓘ central Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	endangered language ⓘ
subfamily	Western Desert language group NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalRegion	Gibson Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Sandy Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	traditional stories and song cycles ⓘ
usedIn	art centres in Western Desert communities ⓘ community education programs in central Australia ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pama–Nyungan languages → includesLanguage → Pintupi language ⓘ

Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi → languageGroup → Pintupi language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pintupi language group

Uta Uta Tjangala → languageGroup → Pintupi language ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pintupi language group

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula → language → Pintupi language ⓘ