Kartutjarra language

Kartutjarra
Kardutjara
Regionnear Jigalong, Western Australia
EthnicityKartudjara
Native speakers
21 (2016 census)[1]
6 speakers of pure Kartujarra (2006)
Pama–Nyungan
Kartutjarra Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mpj – Martu Wangka
Glottologkart1247
AIATSIS[1]A51
ELP

Kartutjarra (Kardutjara) is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family of Australia. It is sometimes counted as a dialect of the Western Desert Language, but is classified as a distinct language in Bowern.[2]

It is one of the components of the Martu Wangka koine.

  1. ^ a b A51 Kartutjarra at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  2. ^ Claire Bowern and Quentin Atkinson. 2012. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan. Language 88. 817-845. Johns Hopkins University Press.