What is the difference between aboriginal and pitjantjatjara?
aboriginal | pitjantjatjara |
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive.
* 1814 , , The Excursion , Longman et al. (publishers), [http://books.google.com/books?id=T18JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA277&dq=aboriginal page 277]:
Living in a land before colonization by the Europeans.
(Aboriginal)
An animal or plant native to a region.
* Charles Darwin
(Aboriginal)
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An Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily), sometimes also called Pitjantjara.
Of or pertaining to the above language or people.
As adjectives the difference between aboriginal and pitjantjatjara
is that aboriginal is first according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive while Pitjantjatjara is of or pertaining to the above language or people.As proper nouns the difference between aboriginal and pitjantjatjara
is that aboriginal is any of the native languages spoken by Australian aborigines while Pitjantjatjara is an Aboriginal language, mainly spoken in central Australia and belonging to the Western Desert language group (Pama-Nyungan subfamily), sometimes also called Pitjantjara.As a noun aboriginal
is an animal or plant native to a region.aboriginal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Green in the Church-yard, beautiful and green; / / And mantled o'er with aboriginal turf / And everlasting flowers.
Synonyms
* (indigenous to a place) native, indigenous, autochthonous, endemic, original, first, earliest, primitive, ancient, primordial, primevalDerived terms
* aboriginality * aboriginallyNoun
(en noun)- It may well be doubted whether this frog is an aboriginal of these islands.
