Pitjantjatjara has a distinctive sound system, which includes a range of consonant and vowel phonemes. The language has a simple phonology system, with 16 consonant phonemes and 5 vowel phonemes.
Pitjantjatjara is an agglutinative language, which means that words are formed by adding prefixes and suffixes to roots. The language has a relatively simple grammar system, with a focus on verb conjugation and case marking.
| English | Pitjantjatjara | | --- | --- | | kangaroo | Ngintaka | | wallaby | Tjilpata | | goanna | Kanyirri | | food | Tjuka | | meat | Wati | | bread | Nyiru | | mother | Mama | | father | Nampa | | sister | Tjilya | | Uluru | Uluru | | water | Watarrka |