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1,300

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Central Australian Endangered Languages: So what?
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,300

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Australia;

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Location description

Central Australia;

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Other writing systems

Central Australia;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

700

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2010

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

700

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AUSTLANG also notes 1000 speakers of Nyanganyatjara.

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

990

Domains of Use

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Data gathered from a 1996 census.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Australia;

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Year of info

2011

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Coordinates

-25.983872, 127.007311

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

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  1. Ngaanyatjarra sentences
    Amee Glass. 1983. "Ngaanyatjarra Sentences." 7: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. The sentence: Boundaries and basic types in Ngaanyatjarra narratives
    Amee Glass. 1979. "The Sentence: Boundaries and Basic Types in Ngaanyatjarra Narratives." 23-45. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  3. Ngaanyatjarra picture dictionary
    K. Obata and I. Kral. 2005. "Ngaanyatjarra Picture Dictionary." IAD Press.
  4. Ngaanyatjarra language course
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  5. Ngaanyatjarra & Ngaatjatjarra to English dictionary
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  6. Into another world: A glimpse of the culture of the Ngaanyatjarra people of Central Australia
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  7. Medical phrases from three Western Desert languages
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  8. Ngaanyatjarra Texts
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    Amee Glass. 1997. "Cohesion in Ngaanyatjarra Discourse." In Summer Institute of Linguistics: Australian Aborigines and Islanders Branch Occasional Papers, Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  11. Switch reference in Ngaanyatjarra
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  16. An introductory dictionary of the Western Desert language
    Wilfrid H. Douglas. 1988. "An Introductory Dictionary of the Western Desert Language." Institute of Applied Language Studies.
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    http://llmap.org
  18. How many languages were spoken in Australia?
    Claire Bowern. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?" Online: http://anggarrgoon.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/austlangs-masterlanguagelist-dec2011.xlsx.
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    Caffery, Josephine. 2010. "Central Australian Endangered Languages: So What?" In Dialogue, 29: 78-86.
  20. Austlang: Australian Indigenous Languages Database
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  21. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
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  22. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
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