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Aboriginal people of South Australia
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 .
Social organisation
Yankunytjatjara
kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the
Pintupi and
Pitjantjatjara dialects.
Alternative names
Alinjera . ('north')
Ankundjara
Everard Range Tribe
Jangkundjadjara
Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara , Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara .
Kaltjilandjara . (a
Pitjantjatjara
exonym , but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra
hordes ).
Nankundjara (typo?)
Wirtjapakandja
Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara, Jangwundjara . (typo)
Notable people
Notes
Citations
Sources
"Aboriginal South Australia" .
Government of South Australia .
"AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia" .
AIATSIS . 28 July 2023.
Berndt, Ronald M. (December 1959). "The Concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia".
Oceania . 30 (2): 81–107.
doi :
10.1002/j.1834-4461.1959.tb00213.x .
JSTOR
40329194 .
Black, J. M (1915).
"Language of the Everard Range tribes" .
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia . 39 . Adelaide: 732–735 – via
BHL .
Black, J. M (1920).
"Vocabularies of four South Australian languages, Adelaide, Narrunga, Kukata, and Narrinyeri, with special reference to their speech sounds" .
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia . 44 . Adelaide: 76–93 – via
BHL .
Fry, M. K. (June 1934). "Kinship in Western Central Australia".
Oceania . 4 (4): 472–478.
doi :
10.1002/j.1834-4461.1934.tb00123.x .
JSTOR
27976165 .
Helms, R. (1896).
"Anthropology of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 1871-1872" .
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia . 16 . Adelaide: 237–332 – via
BHL .
Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974).
"Jangkundjara (SA)" . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names .
Australian National University Press .
ISBN
978-0-708-10741-6 .
Tindale, Norman Barnett ; Hackett, C. J. (September 1933). "Anthropological Expedition to the North-West of South Australia, 1933".
Oceania . 4 (1): 99–105.
doi :
10.1002/j.1834-4461.1933.tb00090.x .
JSTOR
40327448 .
Wells, L. A. (1893).
Journal of the Elder Scientific Expedition, 1891-1892 . Adelaide. {{
cite book }}
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link )
White, S. A. (1916). In the far north-west; an expedition to the Musgrave and Everard Ranges . Adelaide: W.K. Thomas.
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