Yankunytjatjara
Aboriginal people of South Australia
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The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the state of South Australia.
Language
Yankunytjatjara is a Western Desert language belonging to the Wati language family of the Pama-Nyungan languages.
Country
According to the estimation of Norman Tindale, the Yankunytjatjara's tribal lands covered approximately 22,000 square miles (57,000 km2). These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.[1]
Social organisation
Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.[2]
Alternative names
- Alinjera ('north')
- Ankundjara
- Everard Range Tribe
- Jangkundjadjara
- Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara,[3] Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara[2]
- Kaltjilandjara (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes)
- Nankundjara (typo?)
- Wirtjapakandja[1]
- Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara, Jangwundjara (typo)
Notable people
- Eileen Kampakuta Brown, anti-nuclear activist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner
- Ali Cobby Eckermann, poet, author, and artist
- Nellie Lester, nurse
- Yami Lester, anti-nuclear and Indigenous rights advocate
- Lowitja O'Donoghue, Indigenous rights activist
- Tali Tali Pompey, artist
- Mona Ngitji Ngitji Tur, cultural educator, oral linguist and interpreter
- Whiskey Tjukangku, elder, and artist
