Pitjantjatjara

British  

/ ˌpɪtʃəntʃəˈtʃærə, ˌpɪtʃənˈdʒærə /

noun

1. an Aboriginal people of the desert area of South Australia

2. the language of this people

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Example Sentences

Pitjantjatjara also has free word order, but unlike Murrinhpatha, the language is not polysynthetic.

From Scientific American

The Pitjantjatjara speakers spent the first 600 milliseconds rapidly shifting back and forth between the two characters in the depicted scene and then started to focus primarily on the character that became the first element of their sentence.

From Scientific American

And like the Murrinhpatha speakers, the Pitjantjatjara speakers used a range of word orders, with each individual speaker using multiple word orders across the collection of pictures and the entire group using all the possibilities.

From Scientific American

To answer this question, Sasha Wilmoth, who was then one of Nordlinger's Ph.D. students, ran the experiment with speakers of Pitjantjatjara.

From Scientific American

The language is spoken by people in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands, where South Australia abuts the Northern Territory.

From Scientific American