Pintupi language

Pintupi
Native to	Australia
Region	Western Australia, Northern Territory; Papunya settlement, Yuendumu and Kintore, Balgo hills
Ethnicity	Pintupi
Native speakers	203 Pintupi (2006 census) 1,500 Luritja, all languages (2006 census) L2: used by Kukatja
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Wati Western Desert Pintupi
Dialects	Pintupi-Luritja
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	pint1250
AIATSIS	C10 Pintupi, C7.1 Luritja
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Pintupi (/ˈpɪnᵗəpi/ or /ˈpɪnᵗəbi/) is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is one of the Wati languages of the large Pama–Nyungan family. It is one of the varieties of the Western Desert Language (WDL).

Pintupi is the name commonly used to refer to a variety of the Western Desert Language spoken by indigenous people whose traditional lands are in the area between Lake Macdonald and Lake Mackay, stretching from Mount Liebig in the Northern Territory to Jupiter Well (west of Pollock Hills) in Western Australia. These people moved (or were forced to move) into the indigenous communities of Papunya and Haasts Bluff in the west of the Northern Territory in the 1940s–1980s. The last Pintupi people to leave their traditional lifestyle in the desert came into Kiwirrkura in 1984. Over recent decades they have moved back into their traditional country, setting up the communities of Kintore (in Pintupi known as Walungurru) in the Northern Territory, Kiwirrkura and Jupiter Well (in Pintupi Puntutjarrpa) in Western Australia.