Yankunytjatjara

The Yankunytjatjara people, also written Yankuntjatjarra, Jangkundjara, and other variants, are an Aboriginal 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 Yankunytjatjara's tribal lands covered approximately 22,000 mi2. These lands took in the areas of the Musgrave Ranges, with their eastern frontier around the Everard Ranges.

Social organisation
Yankunytjatjara kinship terminology shares many common terms with the words for kinship in the Pintupi and Pitjantjatjara dialects.

Alternative names

 * Alinjera. ('north')
 * Ankundjara
 * Everard Range Tribe
 * Jangkundjadjara
 * Jangundjara, Jankundjadjara, Jankunzazara, Jankuntjatjara, Jankuntjatara, Jankundjindjara.
 * Kaltjilandjara. (a Pitjantjatjara exonym, but referring to the most southwestern of the Yankuntjatjarra hordes).
 * Nankundjara (typo?)
 * Wirtjapakandja
 * Yankunjara, Yangundjadjara, Janggundjara, Jangwundjara. (typo)

Notable people

 * Eileen Kampakuta Brown, anti-nuclear activist and Goldman Environmental Prize winner
 * Yami Lester, anti-nuclear and indigenous rights advocate
 * Tali Tali Pompey, artist
 * Whiskey Tjukangku, elder, and artist
 * Lowitja O'Donoghue, indigenous rights activist
 * Ali Cobby Eckermann, poet, author, and artist