Warlpiri
Britishnoun
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Kumanjayi Little Baby was a Warlpiri girl whose traditional lands are in the northwest of Alice Springs, in the Tanami Desert.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Robin Granites, a spokesman for the family and an elder of the Warlpiri Indigenous group, called for calm in the community.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
The audience included her Warlpiri mother; her father, a white Australian of Anglo-Celtic heritage; and her husband, a Scottish- born musician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023
The Warlpiri people of northern Australia, it’s argued, have no words for colors at all, but instead describe chromatic phenomena within a multidimensional space of texture, iridescence or size.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2020
Peter Bakker, an associate professor of linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark who has published widely on language development, says Light Warlpiri cannot be a pidgin, because a pidgin has no native speakers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2013
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