Anangu

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Anangu is a word that means "people" in a number of Indigenous Australian languages, including, but not limited to:

Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjara refer to themselves as Anangu, which originally just meant people in general, but has now come to imply an Aboriginal person or, more specifically, a member of one of these three tribes.

Literally, the word Anangu means all people, and can be used to refer to white people and non-natives. In some communities, when a white person is accepted in to their community, one of the ways that they know that they are accepted is to be referred to as an Anangu. This often goes alongside being given a skin name, given an Aboriginal family, and on some occasions having a wife, husband or child promised to you as your own.

Most Central Australian Aboriginal languages have many similar words, and the word Anangu is one which is shared throughout many languages in this way. It is one of the many "basic" Aboriginal words that any person trying to learn any Aboriginal dialect in Central Australia should probably learn at any early stage.

Other terms preferred by Aboriginal communities in other regions of Australia are Koori, Noongar, Nunga, Murri.