Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a traditionally nomadic Aboriginal people of north-central and central Australia.
- noun The Pama-Nyungan language of this people, known for its relatively free word order.
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- proper noun An
Aboriginal language , mainly spoken in CentralAustralia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily).
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- noun a language of Australian aborigines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cooked over a noontime campfire, the goanna lizards (a little stringy) are shared along with a white grub (rich, like sautéed mushrooms) amid festive talk in Warlpiri, their guttural tribal tongue.
Print - From Ms. Mag: A Gallery of Dreaming | PopPolitics.com 2005
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Cooked over a noontime campfire, the goanna lizards (a little stringy) are shared along with a white grub (rich, like sautéed mushrooms) amid festive talk in Warlpiri, their guttural tribal tongue.
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Cooked over a noontime campfire, the goanna lizards (a little stringy) are shared along with a white grub (rich, like sautéed mushrooms) amid festive talk in Warlpiri, their guttural tribal tongue.
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For instance, there is a very specific word order to English, which is not true of free-word-order languages like Russian, Warlpiri, or (guess what!)
And cheese could be improved by making it a stapler! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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For instance, there is a very specific word order to English, which is not true of free-word-order languages like Russian, Warlpiri, or (guess what!)
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According to Therese, it's only lucky that the Ryders are peaceful, practising Catholics: If this happened to [notoriously fierce] Warlpiri people, they'd have been coming in in busloads, with spears and boomerangs.
Australia's dark heart Will Storr 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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Written and directed by Warwick Thornton and produced by Kath Shelper, Samson & Delilah is shot predominantly in the Aboriginal language Warlpiri.
Archive 2009-09-01 Glenn Dunks 2009
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Yaroslav Trofimov/The Wall Street Journal A settlement of some 1,000 people, mostly belonging to the Warlpiri ethnic group, Yuendumu sits on the edge of the Tanami desert, and is linked to the rest of the country by an unpaved road.
Aboriginal Wasteland 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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