Ngaanyatjarra dialect should not be confused with Nyanganyatjara dialect.
| Ngaanyatjarra | |
| State: | Australia |
| Region: | Western Australia
|
| Speakers: | 1,051 |
| Date: | 2021 census |
| Ref: | [1] |
| Familycolor: | Australian |
| Iso3: | ntj |
| Aiatsis: | A38 |
| Glotto: | ngaa1240 |
| Glottorefname: | Ngaanyatjarra |
| Notice: | IPA |
Ngaanyatjarra (pronounced as /ˈŋɐːn̪ɐt̪ɐrɐ/; 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.
The name Ngaanyatjarra derives from the word 'this' which, combined with the comitative suffix means 'having (as the word for 'this')'. This distinguishes it from its near neighbour Ngaatjatjarra, which has for 'this'.
Orthography is in brackets.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ (i) pronounced as /ink/ (ii) | pronounced as /ink/ (u) pronounced as /ink/ (uu) | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ (a) pronounced as /ink/ (aa) | ||
| Peripheral | Laminal | Apical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Velar | Dental | Palatal | Alveolar | Retroflex | ||
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ (p) | pronounced as /ink/ (k) | pronounced as /ink/ (tj) | (pronounced as /ink/ (tj)) | pronounced as /ink/ (t) | pronounced as /ink/ (ṯ) | |
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ (m) | pronounced as /ink/ (ng) | pronounced as /ink/ (ny) | (pronounced as /ink/ (ny)) | pronounced as /ink/ (n) | pronounced as /ink/ (ṉ) | |
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ (ly) | (pronounced as /ink/ (ly)) | pronounced as /ink/ (l) | pronounced as /ink/ (ḻ) | |||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ (r) | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ (w) | pronounced as /ink/ (y) | pronounced as /ink/ (ṟ) | ||||
Watilu kurringka watjarru kulkultju kutipitjaku tjutipungka katuma mirrkatju pala tjurra wanti. Nyangka minymali mirrka paarnu tjunu wantirru tjarrpangu wiltjangka kankunarringu. Nyangku tjilku katjarralu pitjangu mirrka mantjirnu katingu ngalungu. Nyangka wataa mungangka pitjangku kurrinku.
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