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Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, South Australia

The languages of Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara

In Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara, 82 per cent of residents speak a First Nations language at home, the 2021 Census found, led by Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara. Of the top five, Yankunytjatjara has more than tripled since 2016. Against Australia as a whole, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara is more than three times as multilingual.

Residents
2,298
Speak another language
1,937
Languages at home
13
Change since 2016
+14.7%

How many people in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara speak a First Nations language?

After Pitjantjatjara, the most common are Yankunytjatjara and Warlpiri. Of everyone speaking a language other than English, First Nations speakers make up 98 per cent of them.

The ABS’s own post-enumeration survey found the census missed a much larger share of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people than of the population overall, so counts here are best read as a floor.

How does Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara's language picture differ from South Australia?

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara has more than three times the rate of other-language speakers found across South Australia. In South Australia, 62 councils rank above Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara.

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
84.3%
South Australia
16.9%
Australia
21.3%

Shares are calculated the same way for each area, so the bars compare directly.

The full diversity index, with Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara highlighted.

What are all the languages spoken in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara?

Speakers at home, with the change since 2016. Broad ABS categories such as "Chinese, nfd" count towards the totals but aren't listed, so the shares can add up to more than the languages shown.

Which multicultural languages have the most speakers in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara?

These are the largest multicultural languages here.

Include First Nations languagesShowing multicultural languagesLEXIGO works in multicultural communication. First Nations languages are optional to display and are not counted in the multicultural rankings.

Shona

4 speakers

Spoken at home by 0.2 per cent of residents.

Ndebele

3 speakers

About 0.1 per cent of all residents.

Mandarin

3 speakers

Used at home by fewer than one in 100 residents.

Where in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara is English least common at home?

Pick a suburb to see its languages in full.

Where does Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara sit on the map of Australia's languages?

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara shaded by the share of residents speaking a multicultural languageany language other than English at home. Boundaries are ABS ASGS 2021. See every council on one map.

Data: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, language used at home, summed from Statistical Area Level 2 to council. Changes are against the 2016 Census.

A note on method: 110 residents didn't state a language, and this page doesn't count them as speaking one. That's why 84.3% sits below the 89.1% you'd get by counting every blank, and below 88.5% measured across respondents only.

Two caveats: summing suburbs leaves out residents with no usual address, so national totals land a little under ABS published figures, and ranked lists leave out broad ABS categories that don't name a language.

Reuse these figures under CC BY 4.0 with credit to LEXIGO Language Map.

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