Ngaatjatjarra

Ngaatjatjarra

language
name=Ngaatjatjarra
familycolor=Australian
region=Western Australia
speakers=500
fam2=Pama-Nyungan
fam3=South-West
fam4=Wati
iso2=aus|iso3=ntj

Ngaatjatjarra (also Ngaatjatjara, Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal languages of the Wati languages of the large South-West branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600 000 square kilometres of the arid central and central-western desert. It is very similar to its close neighbours Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Pintupi, with which it is highly mutually intelligible.

Most Ngaatjatjarra people live in one of the communities of Warburton, Warakurna, Tjukurla or Docker River.

Origin of the name

The name "Ngaatjatjarra" derives from the word "ngaatja" 'this' which, combined with the comitative suffix "-tjarra" means something like ' "ngaatja"-having'. This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Ngaanyatjarra which has "ngaanya" for 'this'.

References

* DOUSSET Laurent 2002. Politics and demography in a contact situation: The establishment of Giles Meteorological Station in the Rawlinson Ranges, Aboriginal History, 26: 1-22.
* DOUSSET Laurent 2003. On the misinterpretation of the Aluridja kinship system type (Australian Western Desert), Social Anthropology, 11(1): 43-61.
* DOUSSET Laurent 2005. Structure and Substance: Combining ‘Classic’ and ‘Modern’ Kinship Studies in the Australian Western Desert, TAJA, 16(1): 18-30.
* DOUSSET L. 2003. Indigenous modes of representing social relationships: A short critique of the “genealogical concept”, Aboriginal Studies, 2003/1: 19-29.
* GLASS A. & HACKETT D. 2003. Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary. Alice Springs: IAD. ISBN 1-86465-053-2
* GOULD R.A. 1968. Living Archaeology: The Ngatatjara of Western Australia, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, 24(2): 101-122.
* GOULD R.A. 1969. Subsistence behavior among the Western desert Aborigines of Australia, Oceania, 39(4): 253-274.

External links

* [http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db/detail.php?id_search=371 AusAnthrop database: Ngaatjatjarra]
* [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/LANG/WA/4_6_4.htm Handbook of Western Aboriginal languages of the South Kimberley Region]


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