Yankunytjatjara
The Yankuntjatjarra, otherwise written Jangkundjara, are an indigenous 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 Yankuntjatjarra'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 organization
Yankuntjatjarra kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.[2]
Alternative names
- Jangkundjadjara
- Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara,[3] Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara.[2]
- Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara,Jangwundjara. (typo)
- Nankundjara (typo?)
- Ankundjara
- Everard Range Tribe
- Alinjera. ('north')
- Kaltjilandjara. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes).
- Wirtjapakandja[1]
Notable people
- Yami Lester, anti-nuclear and indigenous rights advocate
- Tali Tali Pompey, artist
- Whiskey Tjukangku, elder, and artist
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 212.
- ^ a b Fry 1934, p. 478.
- ^ Tindale & Hackett 1933, p. 102.
Sources
- "Aboriginal South Australia". Government of South Australia.
- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
- Berndt, Ronald M. (December 1959). "The Concept of 'The Tribe' in the Western Desert of Australia". Oceania. 30 (2): 81–107. JSTOR 40329194.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Black, J. M (1915). "Language of the Everard Range tribes". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 39. Adelaide: 732–735.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - 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.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Fry, M. K. (June 1934). "Kinship in Western Central Australia". Oceania. 4 (4): 472–478. JSTOR 27976165.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Helms, R. (1896). "Anthropology of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 1871-1872". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 16. Adelaide: 237–332.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Tindale, Norman Barnett; Hackett, C. J. (September 1933). "Anthropological Expedition to the North-West of South Australia, 1933". Oceania. 4 (1): 99–105. JSTOR 40327448.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - 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.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Wells, L. A. (1893). Journal of the Elder Scientific Expedition, 1891-1892. Adelaide.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (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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