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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Australia Western Desert language, a cluster of Aboriginal Australian languages Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War Western Desert Force, World...
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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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Yankunytjatjara dialect (redirect from Yankuntjatjarra language)
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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Pitjantjatjara dialect (redirect from Pitjantjatjarra language)
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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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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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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Pitjantjatjara (section Language)
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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Luritja dialect (redirect from Luritja language)
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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Deserts of Australia (redirect from Australian Desert)
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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Ngaatjatjarra dialect (redirect from Ngaatjatjarr language)
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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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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The Western Desert Force (WDF) was a British Army formation active in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. On 17 June 1940...
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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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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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Kokatha dialect (redirect from Kokatha language)
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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Ngaanyatjarra dialect (redirect from Ngaanjatjarra language)
Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language and is very...
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Aṉangu (category Western Desert cultural bloc)
a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Languages (which are in the Pama–Nyungan group of languages), in particular Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara...
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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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Pintupi dialect (redirect from Pintupi-Luritja language)
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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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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Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. For several...
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In 2016 there were 1,550 speakers of the language, giving it a status of "Developing". It is similar to Western Arrernte. (Kaytetye is related to this dialect...
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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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might be closer to Wanman than it is to the Western Desert Language (reference?). "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs...
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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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areas in the desert include Ha-la-ma, A-lang-ha and Mai-k'o-tsa-k'o. The Mazartag mountains are located in the western part of the desert. Because it lies...
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referred to (within Iraqi context) as the Western Desert. The name Shamiyah has also been used for the Syrian Desert. The name has been translated in the past...
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Kukatja language word palkurr-palkurr, meaning rice grass, which grows nearby. The Kukatja dialect of the Western Desert Language is the first language for...
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Convention. The religion in Western Sahara is Sunni Islam. The major ethnic groups are Arab and Berbers. The most common languages are Hassaniya Arabic and...
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