Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Australian aboriginal people inhabiting the desert regions of southern and western Australia.
- noun The Pama-Nyungan language of this people, used as a lingua franca in western Australia.
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- proper noun An
aboriginal language , mainly spoken in centralAustralia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily). Sometimes it is also calledPitjantjara .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Both Uluru and Kata Tjuta are extremely important in matters spiritual and ceremonial to Aboriginal tribes, especially the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara western desert tribes, but the story of how the Traditional Owners lost these places to the federal government is familiar, sad and ugly.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Both Uluru and Kata Tjuta are extremely important in matters spiritual and ceremonial to Aboriginal tribes, especially the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara western desert tribes, but the story of how the Traditional Owners lost these places to the federal government is familiar, sad and ugly.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Hey, Elaine, look at this... it's a Kangaroo Dreaming of the Pitjantjatjara people, this is Kangaroo's story.
Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011
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I think Mr. Obama was confusing “Austria” with “Australia,” as I often do, and was referring to Pitjantjatjara when he said “Austrian.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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Both Uluru and Kata Tjuta are extremely important in matters spiritual and ceremonial to Aboriginal tribes, especially the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara western desert tribes, but the story of how the Traditional Owners lost these places to the federal government is familiar, sad and ugly.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Both Uluru and Kata Tjuta are extremely important in matters spiritual and ceremonial to Aboriginal tribes, especially the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara western desert tribes, but the story of how the Traditional Owners lost these places to the federal government is familiar, sad and ugly.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I think Mr. Obama was confusing “Austria” with “Australia,” as I often do, and was referring to Pitjantjatjara when he said “Austrian.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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Bushfires and Bushtucker, the title of his definitive book surveying the use of plants and fire by the Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Arrernte, Pintupi and other central Australian Aboriginal peoples, describes his passions well enough.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Bushfires and Bushtucker, the title of his definitive book surveying the use of plants and fire by the Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri, Arrernte, Pintupi and other central Australian Aboriginal peoples, describes his passions well enough.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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If you want to get nationalistic about it - it belongs to the ascendant people of the age - the white Australians - and it is the good fortune for the Pitjantjatjara that the average white Australian's mindset encompasses allowing the native claim to be heard.
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