Western Australia, Northern Territory: Papunya, Kings Canyon, Aputula
Ethnicity
Luritja
Native speakers
1,300 (2021 census)[1]
Language family
Pama-Nyungan
Wati
Western Desert
Luritja
Language codes
ISO 639-3
piu Shared with Pintupi
Glottolog
pint1250
AIATSIS[2]
C7.1
The Luritja dialect is the language of the Luritja people, an Aboriginal Australian group indigenous to parts of the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It is one of several dialects in the Western Desert language group.
^"SBS Australian Census Explorer". Retrieved 10 January 2023.
^C7.1 Luritja at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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some 27,000 square kilometres (10,300 sq mi). Their language is the Luritjadialect, a Western Desert language. The name Kukatja or Kukatj is one shared...
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to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects...
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Australia) people Kukatja language (two dialects, same name) Luritja people of the Northern Territory Luritja language More unusually: Kokatha people...
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