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Shops and hotels in Pitjantjatjara

Open, closed, a bag, the wifi password: the checkout and the front desk. Play the ten Pitjantjatjara words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.

Red desert country around Uluru and Kata Tjuṯa in central Australia
Shops and hotels
10 words · 20 seconds each · 8 of 10 to pass
What it meansHow to say it
Alexander Gerst, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

All 10 Pitjantjatjara phrases in this lesson

Do you have...?doo yoo HAV
Do you have...?

Said in English at the store.

Yaaltji...?YAAL-chi
Where is...?

Literally "where ...?".

OpenOH-pen
Open

Said in English.

Closedklohzd
Closed

Said in English.

Bag?bag
A bag?

Said in English.

Too expensivetoo ek-SPEN-siv
Too expensive

Said in English. Prices at remote stores are high because of freight costs.

I have a reservationai hav a re-zer-VAY-shun
I have a reservation

Said in English, for example at the resort near Uluṟu.

Is breakfast included?iz BREK-fust in-KLOO-ded
Is breakfast included?

Said in English.

What's the wifi password?wuts the WAI-fai PASS-wurd
What's the wifi password?

Said in English. Coverage on the Lands is limited.

Can I...?kan ai
Can I...?

Said in English. Asking before photographing people or places is essential.

Where Pitjantjatjara is spoken

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