ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Australia · ISO 639-3 pjt · Glottocode pitj1243

Pitjantjatjara

Pitjantjatjara expands the pilot with a threatened Pama-Nyungan language and an Australian reference point.

Language family
Pama-Nyungan
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Australia
Source country codes
AU
Reference point
-26.970, 131.357

Open research question

How can language area and cultural relationships to place be described from suitable sources without turning the map point into a boundary?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.