Kokatha dialect

Kokatha
Native toAustralia
RegionWestern South Australia
EthnicityKokatha
Native speakers
16 (2016)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ktd
Glottologkoka1244
AIATSIS[2]C3
ELPKokatha
Tribal boundaries, after Tindale (1974), adapted from Hercus (1999)

The Kokatha language, also written Kukatha, Kokata, Gugada, and other variants, and also referred to as Madutara, Maduwonga, Nganitjidi, Wanggamadu, and Yallingarra and variant spellings of these, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Western Desert group traditionally spoken by the Kokatha people, whose traditional lands are in the western part of the state of South Australia, north of the Wirangu people.

  1. ^ Kokatha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ C3 Kokatha at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies