Pitjantjatjara
Facts
- Language: Pitjantjatjara
- Alternate names: Yankunytjatjara, Pitjantjatjara (Pithantjatjarra).
- Language code: pjt
- Language family: Pama-Nyungan, Desert Nyungic, Wati, Pintupic, Nuclear Pintupic, Wangkatja-Tjarra, Tjarra
- Number of speakers: 2,120 (Language use
- Vulnerability: Vulnerable [Read more...]
- Script: Latin
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Introduction
Pitjantjatjara is spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia.
Uluru (Ayers Rock) is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area.
Pitjantjatjara Verb
Pitjantjatjara has four different classes of verbs, which take slightly different endings (the classes are named according to their imperative suffixes):
- ∅-class verbs,
- la-class verbs,
- wa-class verbs, and
- ra-class verbs.
Sample Verbs
- wananingi
- pitjangu
- nyanga
- nyangangi
- rawangku
- piruku
- pakalyjinganu
- papulanangi
- pitjala
Verblist
- aaṉarinyi
- ailururinganyi
- ananyi
- angaṉi
- kampanyi
- katinyi
- kulini
- kuna ngingkirmananyi
- kunaṟinganyi
- kuraringanyi
- kutjuparinyi
- lirintananyi
- lirinyarinyi
- ma-pitjanyi
- mulya-mulyaringanyi
- mulyalukatinyi
- ngalkuṉi
- nyinanyi
- palyaṉi
- patjaṉi
- piltalytjunanyi
- pitjanyi
- punganyi
- puuṉi
- tapulananyi
- tjikini
- tjunanyi
- unganyi
- uraṉi
- wangkanyi
- wanitjunanyi