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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The Taklamakan Desert (/ˌtækləməˈkæn/ TAK-lə-mə-KAN) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang...
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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 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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    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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    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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    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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    The Arabian Desert (Arabic: ٱلصَّحْرَاء ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة) is a vast desert wilderness in West Asia that occupies almost the entire Arabian Peninsula with...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (ⵜⵉⵛⵓⵎⴰⵔⴻⵏ in Neo-Tifinagh script) or assouf, internationally known as desert blues, is a style of music from the Sahara region of northern and west Africa...
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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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    The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region located in northern China and...
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  • gazetted as Kiwirrkurra Community, is a small community in Western Australia in the Gibson Desert, 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) east of Port Hedland and 700...
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    Convention. The religion in Western Sahara is Sunni Islam. The major ethnic groups are Arab and Berbers. The most common languages are Hassaniya Arabic and...
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    Erythrina vespertilio (category Rosids of Western Australia)
    coral tree, yulbah and the more ambiguous "bean tree". In the Western Desert language it is known as ininti and the in Arrernte and Anmatyerr it is known...
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