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    The Western Desert language, or Wati, is a dialect cluster of Australian Aboriginal languages in the Pama–Nyungan family. The name Wati tends to be used...
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    groups that live there, who speak dialects of one language, often called the Western Desert language. The term cultural bloc is used by anthropologists...
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  • square miles (39,000 km2). The Ngalia language, also known as Ooldean, is a dialect of the Western Desert language. Nangga ('men' in the sense that they...
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  • The Western Desert is part of the Sahara Desert in Egypt, west of the River Nile. Western Desert may also refer to: Western Desert (Iraq), part of the...
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  • might be closer to Wanman than it is to the Western Desert language.[citation needed] "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs...
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  • language. It is one of the Wati languages, belonging to the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the many varieties of the Western Desert Language...
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    large extent, mutually intelligible (all are varieties of the Western Desert language). They refer to themselves as Anangu (people). The Pitjantjatjara...
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  • Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language. It is spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600,000 square...
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  • several dialects in the Western Desert language group. The name luritja is thought to derive from the Arrernte word lurinya,[what language is this?] 'foreigner'...
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    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...
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    Pitjantjatjara: [ˈpɪɟanɟaɟaɾa] or [ˈpɪɟanɟaɾa]) is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia...
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    it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau and interior...
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    The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second...
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  • 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...
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  • speaking in Pitjantjatjara. In 2008, Alison Anderson spoke in the Western Desert language during her first speech as Minister for Natural Resources, Environment...
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  • of South Australia. They speak the Kokatha language, close to or a dialect of the Western Desert language. Traditional Kokatha lands extend over some...
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    The Wati languages are the dominant Pama–Nyungan languages of central Australia. They include the moribund Wanman language and the Western Desert dialect...
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  • ([ˈŋɐːn̪ɐt̪ɐrɐ]; also Ngaanyatjara, Ngaanjatjarra) is a dialect of the Western Desert language spoken primarily by the Ngaanyatjarra people. It is very similar...
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  • a dialect of the Western Desert language. Traditionally, its speakers lived in the north-eastern section of the Great Sandy Desert and the Canning Stock...
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    Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language (WDL). Pintupi...
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    Balgo Mission, is a community in Western Australia that is linked with both the Great Sandy Desert and the Tanami Desert. The community is in the Shire...
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  • with the Kukatja Western Desert Language spoken south of Balgo, Western Australia, or the Luritja dialect of the Western Desert Language, spoken in the...
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  • gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700...
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  • Yulparija (redirect from Yulparija language)
    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...
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  • Aboriginal language, generally considered a dialect of the Western Desert language. It is often classified as a distinct language among the Wati languages of...
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    The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, located in the northeast of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley...
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  • Martu Wangka is a variety of the Western Desert language that emerged during the 20th century in Western Australia as several Indigenous communities shifted...
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    Erythrina vespertilio (category Rosids of Western Australia)
    coral tree, yulbah and the more ambiguous "bean tree". In the Western Desert language it is known as ininti and in Arrernte and Anmatyerr it is known...
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    The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ ; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada...
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    (ⵜⵉⵛⵓⵎⴰⵔⴻⵏ in Neo-Tifinagh script) or assouf, internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa...
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