Warlpiri/Midterm
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Notes for Midterm Overview
- Warlpiri is an endangered indigenous language of Australia
- Spoken by about 3,000 people in Australia's Northern Territory
- part of the Pama-Nyungan language family
- Warlpiri is an agglutinative language
- means that grammatical information is encoded in affixes attached to word stems
- Warlpiri words have many suffixes, so sentences have relatively few words
- Warlpiri has 21 phonemes, and uses a Latin orthography
