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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...
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    groups that live there, who speak dialects of one language, often called the Western Desert language. The term cultural bloc is used by anthropologists...
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  • Australia Western Desert language, a cluster of Aboriginal Australian languages Western Desert campaign of the Second World War Western Desert Force, World...
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  • square miles (39,000 km2). The Ngalia language, also known as Ooldean, is a dialect of the Western Desert language. Nangga ('men' in the sense that they...
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    large extent, mutually intelligible (all are varieties of the Western Desert language). They refer to themselves as Anangu (people). The Pitjantjatjara...
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  • speaking in Pitjantjatjara. In 2008, Alison Anderson spoke in the Western Desert language during her first speech as Minister for Natural Resources, Environment...
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  • several dialects in the Western Desert language group. The name luritja is thought to derive from the Arrernte word lurinya,[what language is this?] 'foreigner'...
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    Pitjantjatjara: [ˈpɪɟanɟaɟaɾa] or [ˈpɪɟanɟaɾa]) is a dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken by the Pitjantjatjara people of Central Australia...
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    it is practically desert. Collectively known as the Great Australian desert, they are primarily distributed throughout the Western Plateau and interior...
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  • language. It is one of the Wati languages, belonging to the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the many varieties of the Western Desert Language...
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  • of South Australia. They speak the Kokatha language, close to or a dialect of the Western Desert language. Traditional Kokatha lands extend over some...
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  • Ngaadadjarra) is an Australian Aboriginal dialect of the Western Desert language. It is spoken in the Western Desert cultural bloc which covers about 600 000 square...
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    The Western Desert Force (WDF) was a British Army formation active in Egypt during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. On 17 June 1940...
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    The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second...
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    The Mojave Desert (/moʊˈhɑːvi, mə-/ ; Mohave: Hayikwiir Mat'aar; Spanish: Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada...
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    Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
    including the western Sahara, the central Ahaggar Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Aïr Mountains, the Ténéré desert, and the Libyan Desert. For several...
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    The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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  • Martu Wangka is a variety of the Western Desert language that emerged during the 20th century in Western Australia as several Indigenous communities shifted...
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  • with the Kukatja Western Desert Language spoken south of Balgo, Western Australia, or the Luritja dialect of the Western Desert Language, spoken in the...
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    The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, located in the northeast of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley...
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  • Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the dialects of the Western Desert Language and is very...
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    Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language (WDL). Pintupi...
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  • might be closer to Wanman than it is to the Western Desert Language.[citation needed] "Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+)". stat.data.abs...
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  • considered a dialect of the Western Desert language. It is often classified as a distinct language among the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family...
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    Aṉangu (category Western Desert cultural bloc)
    a number of eastern varieties of the Western Desert Languages (which are in the Pama–Nyungan group of languages), in particular Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara...
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    Luritja (category Articles containing German-language text)
    27,000 square kilometres (10,300 sq mi). Their language is the Luritja dialect, a Western Desert language. The name Kukatja or Kukatj is one shared by four...
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  • North Carolina Watha dialect, part of the indigenous Australian Western Desert Language Watha people, a hunter-gatherer culture in East Africa (mainly...
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    and western Iraq. It accounts for approx. 85% of the land area of Jordan and 55% of Syria. To the south, it borders and merges into the Arabian Desert. The...
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    small western portions of Nuevo León. With an area of about 501,896 km2 (193,783 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in North America. The desert is fairly...
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  • of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family of Australia. It is sometimes counted as a dialect of the Western Desert Language, but is classified...
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