page_title: Adnyamathanha language
section_title: Names
hierarchical_section_title: Adnyamathanha language / Names
caption_attribution_description: English: map of the various Australian Aboriginal tribes around Adelaide South Australia
context_page_description: Adnyamathanha or yura ngarwala is an Australian Aboriginal language. It is the traditional language of the Adnyamathanha of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, and related peoples.
  The name of the witchetty grub comes from Adnyamathanha.
  Estimates of the number of people who speak Adnyamathanha are variable, though it is definitely severely endangered. According to Oates 1973 there were only 30 speakers, around 20 according to Schmidt in 1990, 127 in the 1996 census, and about 107 counted in the 2006 census.
  Yura ngarwala is a widely used term for the Adnyamathanha language. It translates literally to 'people speak'. However, in modern times yura has come to mean 'Adnyamathanha person', rather than 'person' generally, and thus the term translates to 'Adnyamathanha person speak'.
context_section_description: This language has been known by many names and variants of names, including:
  Adnyamathanha, Adynyamathanha, Adjnjamathanha, Atʸnʸamat̪an̪a, Adnjamathanha, Adnyamathana, Anyamathana, Ad'n'amadana, Anjimatana, Anjiwatana, Unyamootha
  Wailpi, Wailbi, Waljbi, Wipie, the name of a dialect
  Archualda
  Benbakanjamata
  Binbarnja
  Gadjnjamada, Kanjimata, Keydnjmarda
  Jandali
  Mardala
  Nimalda
  Nuralda
  Umbertana
  Yura ngarwala
  Guyani is also spelled Kijani, Kuyani, Kwiani.
caption: Aboriginal Tribes near Adelaide.
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