Yankunytjatjara Explained

The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia.

Language

See main article: Yankunytjatjara dialect.

Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages.

Country

According to the estimation of Norman Tindale, the Yankunytjatjara's tribal lands covered approximately 22000mi2. These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.

Social organisation

Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.

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Notable people

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