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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 when considering the various varieties to be distinct languages, Western Desert when considering them dialects of a single language, or Wati as Warnman plus the Western Desert cluster.
Western Desert speakers encroach into Central Australia and a late strata of loans occurs from Western Desert to the Eastern languages. He concludes with Laughren (McConvell and Laughren 1996) that the homeland of the Wati subgroup (to which the Western Desert language belongs) was in the south-west Pilbara/Gascoyne headwaters of north-west ...
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Aṉangu. Flag. Indigenous Australian cultural regions; the Western Desert cultural bloc is marked "Desert." Aṉangu is the name used by members of several Aboriginal Australian groups, roughly approximate to the Western Desert cultural bloc, to describe themselves. The term, which embraces several distinct "tribes" or peoples, in particular ...
There was a major increase in site numbers and artifact densities across the desert after c.1,500 years ago (Smith and Ross 2008), coinciding with the spread of the Western Desert languages out of ...
Feb 9, 2024 · 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 when considering the various varieties to be distinct languages, Western Desert when considering them dialects of a single language, or Wati as Wanman plus the Western Desert cluster.
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 when considering the various varieties to be distinct languages, Western Desert when considering them dialects of a single language, or Wati as Wanman plus the Western Desert cluster.
Abstract. Pitjantjatjara is a dialect of the Western Desert Language (WDL) of central Australia (Douglas 1958). The Western Desert Language is a member of the south-west Pama-Nyungan group. Together with Warnman, it forms the Wati sub-group. It is spoken by 4000-5000 people, and covers the widest geographical area of any language in Australia ...
