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 . 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 Ali Cobby Eckermann, poet, author, and artist Nellie Lester, nurse Yami Lester, anti-nuclear and Indigenous rights advocate Lowitja O'Donoghue, Indigenous rights activist Tali Tali Pompey, artist Mona Ngitji Ngitji Tur, cultural educator, oral linguist and interpreter Whiskey Tjukangku, elder, and artist
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