Putijarra | |
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Puditara | |
Region | south of Jigalong, Western Australia |
Ethnicity | Putijarra |
Native speakers | 4 (2004) |
Language family | Pama–Nyungan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | mpj – Martu Wangka |
Glottolog | None |
AIATSIS | A54 |
ELP |
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.
It is one of the components of the Martu Wangka koine.
References
- ^ 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.
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