Yankunytjatjara

Yankunytjatjara

Yankunytjatjara

Aboriginal people of South Australia


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

Language

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 22,000 square miles (57,000 km2). These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.[1]

Social organisation

Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.[2]

Alternative names

  • Alinjera. ('north')
  • Ankundjara
  • Everard Range Tribe
  • Jangkundjadjara
  • Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara,[3] Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara.[2]
  • Kaltjilandjara. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes).
  • Nankundjara (typo?)
  • Wirtjapakandja[1]
  • Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara, Jangwundjara. (typo)

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