Manyjilyjarra is a Western Desert language variety of the Wati branch of the Pama-Nyungan family, spoken by the Mandjildjara people near Jigalong, Western Australia. It is generally treated as a dialect of the Western Desert language but is sometimes classified as a distinct language among the Wati languages, and it is one of the two ancestral dialects, alongside Kartudjara, that combined to form the Martu Wangka koine. Native speakers fell sharply from 311 in the 2016 census to 65 in 2021, and the variety has an associated sign language, Manjiljarra Sign Language.
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