Putijarra dialect

Putijarra
Putijarra
Puditara
Region	south of Jigalong, Western Australia
Ethnicity	Putijarra
Native speakers	4 (2004)
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Wati Putijarra; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	; mpj – Martu Wangka
Glottolog	None
AIATSIS	A54
ELP	Putijarra; Putijarra;

Putijarra 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 A54 Putijarra 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.