Yindjibarndi language

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The Yindjibarndi language is an Australian Aboriginal language traditionally spoken by the Yindjibarndi people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Kariyarra language 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Australian Aboriginal language
Pama–Nyungan language
natural language
associatedWith Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation cultural programs
belongsTo Ngayarta branch of Pama–Nyungan
closelyRelatedTo Kurrama language NERFINISHED
continent Australia
country Australia
ethnicGroup Yindjibarndi people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Jindjiparndi NERFINISHED
Yindjibarnda NERFINISHED
Yindjibarndi NERFINISHED
Yindjibarndi (language)
Yindjiparndi NERFINISHED
Yinyibarndi NERFINISHED
Yinyjibarndi
hasDialects Yindjibarndi (high speech)
Yindjibarndi (plain speech)
hasDomain Dreaming stories
kinship terminology
traditional ecological knowledge
hasLinguisticDescription documented in grammars and dictionaries
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
case-marking on nouns
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory typical of Australian languages
three-vowel system
hasRevitalizationEffort community language programs in Western Australia
hasSpeakerCommunity Roebourne NERFINISHED
surrounding Pilbara communities
hasSyntacticFeature relatively free word order
ISO639-3Code yij
isPartOf Australian Indigenous languages
isSpokenBy Yindjibarndi people NERFINISHED
languageFamily Pama–Nyungan NERFINISHED
region Roebourne area NERFINISHED
spokenIn Australia NERFINISHED
Pilbara region NERFINISHED
Western Australia NERFINISHED
status endangered language
subfamily Ngayarta NERFINISHED
traditionalTerritory Fortescue River area NERFINISHED
Hamersley Range NERFINISHED
Pilbara plateau NERFINISHED
usedFor ceremonial speech
oral storytelling
song traditions
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Kariyarra people hasLanguage Yindjibarndi language
this entity surface form: Kariyarra language
Pama–Nyungan languages includesLanguage Yindjibarndi language
Yindjibarndi people language Yindjibarndi language