Ngaatjatjarra dialect

Ngaatjatjarra
Nga:da
RegionWestern Australia
EthnicityNgaatjatjarra
Native speakers
12 (2005)[1]
Ngada Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
AIATSIS[1]A43
ELPNgaatjatjara

Ngaatjatjarra (also Ngaatjatjara, Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language. It is 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 live in one of the communities of Warburton, Warakurna, Tjukurla or Docker River.

  1. ^ a b A43 Ngaatjatjarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies