Kaytetye is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Arandic subgroup of the Pama-Nyungan family, spoken by the Kaytetye people around Barrow Creek and Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory north of Alice Springs. It is related to Alyawarra, one of the Upper Arrernte dialects, has an unusual phonology, and has no known dialects of its own.
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1. Glottolog: Kaytetye (languoid record)
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"level": "language", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Spoken L1 Language"
2. Kaytetye language (Wikipedia)
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The language is considered to be threatened; it is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, but it is losing users, with only 109 speakers of the language in the 2021 census.
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