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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.
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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 Wanman plus the Western Desert cluster.
by at least 1,500 years ago that Western Desert Language speakers occupy the Western Desert. In the last 500 years 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 ...
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 ...
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There are two distinct language groupings in the Goldfields. The first group is composed of languages that are easily identifiable as western desert languages (WDL) and therefore members of the Wati family of languages. WDLs are mutually intelligible and share characteristics which include a similar phonemic
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.
