Kartutjarra language

Kartutjarra
Kartutjarra
Kardutjara
Region	near Jigalong, Western Australia
Ethnicity	Kartudjara
Native speakers	21 (2016 census); 6 speakers of pure Kartujarra (2006)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Wati Kartutjarra; ;
Signed forms	Kartutjarra Sign Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; mpj – Martu Wangka
Glottolog	kart1247
AIATSIS	A51
ELP	Kartujarra; 6689;

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.

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