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PRONUNCIATION OF WARLPIRI

Warlpiri  [ˈwalpri] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WARLPIRI

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determiner
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Warlpiri is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WARLPIRI MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Warlpiri

The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory, north and west of Alice Springs. Their largest community is at Yuendumu and many live also at Willowra, Lajamanu, Nyirrpi, Mount Allen and smaller settlements. Many also live in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek. About 3,000 still speak the Warlpiri language. The word "Warlpiri" has also been romanised as Walpiri, Walbiri, Elpira, Ilpara and Wailbri.

Definition of Warlpiri in the English dictionary

The definition of Warlpiri in the dictionary is an Aboriginal language of central Australia.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WARLPIRI

Warks
warless
Warley

WORDS THAT END LIKE WARLPIRI

daiquiri
daquiri
decemviri
Dhaulagiri
duumviri
hara-kiri
Kafiri
Kashmiri
Kediri
kokiri
manuhiri
miri
nigiri
piri-piri
powhiri
puriri
saimiri
siri
tawhiri
triumviri

Synonyms and antonyms of Warlpiri in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Warlpiri» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WARLPIRI

Find out the translation of Warlpiri to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Warlpiri from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Warlpiri» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Warlpiri
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Warlpiri
570 millions of speakers

English

Warlpiri
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Warlpiri
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Warlpiri
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

варлпири
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Warlpiri
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Warlpiri,
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Warlpiri
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Warlpiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Warlpiri
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Warlpiri
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Warlpiri
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Warlpiri
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Warlpiri
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Warlpiri,
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वार्लपिरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

warlpiri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Warlpiri
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Warlpiri
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Варлпірі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Warlpiri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Warlpiri
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Slapende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Warlpiri
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Warlpiri
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Warlpiri

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WARLPIRI»

The term «Warlpiri» is normally little used and occupies the 111.825 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WARLPIRI» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Warlpiri

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WARLPIRI»

Discover the use of Warlpiri in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Warlpiri and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories
This collection of fifteen stories from Warlpiri elders reflects the importance of the Dreaming in all its manifestations. Recorded and translated here for the first time are stories rich with insight into aboriginal spirituality and life.
Peggy Rockman Napaljarri, Lee Cataldi, 2003
2
Warlpiri Dictionary Project: Aims, Method, Organization and ...
Discusses methodology, issues, with examples.
Mary Napaljarri Laughren, 1982
3
Warlpiri Women's Voices: Our Lives Our History : Stories
In Warlpiri Women's Voices Aboriginal women tell the stories of their lives and history on the Lander River in Central Australia.
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, Molly Nungarrayi, Valerie Peterson Napanangka, 1995
4
The Semantics of Polysemy: Reading Meaning in English and ...
Biographical note: Nick Riemer is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, University of Sydney, Australia.
Nick Riemer, 2005
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
FRAN OISE DUSSART University of Connecticut Introduction The Warlpiri are best known internationally for the rich cosmological system popularized in Bruce Chatwin's travel book, Songlines, about Central Desert Aborigines, and for the " dot ...
Richard B. Lee, Richard Heywood Daly, 1999
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Warlpiri Morpho-Syntax: A Lexicalist Approach
Warlpiri is a Pama-Nyungan language (Ngarrka group) spo ken by over 3,000 people in Central Australia.
J. Simpson, 2012
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Morphology: Morphology: its relation to syntax
Introductory remarks The grammar of Warlpiri, an Aboriginal language of Central Australia, exhibits a number of properties which have come to be associated with the typological label 'non-configurational,' including, among others, (i) free ...
Francis Katamba, 2004
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Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
In the case of Lajamanu this involved of a section of the larger Warlpiri population being separated from their families and moved to a site far from other Warlpiri communities, approximately 600 kilometers from the area where other Warlpiri are ...
James N. Stanford, Dennis Richard Preston, 2009
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Agreement Systems
This makes Warlpiri appear to have a very serious Case-agreement mismatch, so much so that some have analyzed Warlpiri as having two completely independent Case systems, one for DPs and another for the agreement clitics ( e.g. Jelinek ...
Cedric Boeckx, 2006
10
Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand
WORKING AT LAJAMANU By 1991 I had spent half of my adult life living and working at Lajamanu, a Warlpiri Aboriginal settlement in the Northern Territory. So my own 'adventure of identity' has been at least to some extent grafted onto, ...
John Docker, Gerhard Fischer, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WARLPIRI»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Warlpiri is used in the context of the following news items.
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After 70 years, Aboriginal sacred site Kurlpurlunu found in Central …
Previous attempts to find the Tanami Desert site, known as Kurlpurlunu, had proved fruitless until Warlpiri elders, George Jungarrayi Ryder and Molly ... «ABC Online, Jun 15»
2
Australian football star drawn back into tough outback life
In 2007, a Melbourne football club invited three young men from the Warlpiri tribe in this small settlement about 200 miles northwest of Alice Springs for a tryout. «Los Angeles Times, Jan 15»
3
In Australia's outback, troubled youths find help in old traditions
The elders of the Warlpiri Aboriginal tribe in outback Australia look at a person's footprints: A good person, it's believed, leaves good prints in the red dust. «Los Angeles Times, Jan 15»
4
Warlpiri indigenous art and culture explored by Melinda Hinkson
The Warlpiri cosmos is one of the most persistently explored thought-realms in all the Aboriginal desert. Warlpiri have exercised a strong pull on scholars over ... «The Australian, Nov 14»
5
Coniston massacre: Nigel Scullion returns site to traditional owners …
Warlpiri and Anmatyerr people welcomed Senator Nigel Scullion on to their land with traditional song and dance. Senior Anmatyerr man Teddy Long said ... «ABC Online, Oct 14»
6
Lily Nungarrayi Hargraves's canvases reflect her Warlpiri heritage
WITH one foot in traditional Warlpiri art and the other sitting firmly in modern artistic practices, Lily Nungarrayi Hargraves's exhibition at the Suzanne O'Connell ... «The Australian, Sep 14»
7
ABC Radio Is Broadcasting In Two Indigenous Languages Now …
News bulletins read in the Warlpiri language, spoken by about 3,000 Warlpiri people in the central Northern Territory, began broadcasting on Tuesday August 5, ... «Junkee, Sep 14»
8
Aboriginal artists speak from beyond the grave through crayon …
When mother and daughter Tess Napaljarri Ross and Lizzy Napurrurla Ross put crayon to paper, they are continuing an 80-year-old tradition for their Warlpiri ... «The Canberra Times, Aug 14»
9
ABC Radio News in Warlpiri and Yolngu languages
ABC Radio, with the help of the Aboriginal Interpreter Service in the Northern Territory, is trialling an Indigenous language News Service in Warlpiri and Yolngu ... «Radioinfo, Jul 14»
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ABC launches Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha Indigenous languages news …
Translating the bulletins into Warlpiri and Yolngu Matha will be done by the NT Aboriginal Interpreter Service. The NT has an Indigenous population of about 30 ... «ABC Online, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
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