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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Distinguish Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox language Arrernte or Aranda (Шаблон:IPAc-en;[1] Шаблон:IPA) or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte (Upper Aranda), is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory, Australia, by the Arrernte people. Other spelling variations are Arunta or Arrarnta, and all of the dialects have multiple other names.

There are about 1,800 speakers of Eastern/Central Arrernte, making this dialect one of the widest spoken of any Indigenous language in Australia, the one usually referred to as Arrernte and the one described in detail below. It is spoken in the Alice Springs area and taught in schools and universities, heard in media and used in local government.

The second biggest dialect in the group is Alyawarre. Some of the other dialects are spoken by very few people, leading to efforts to revive their usage; others are now completely extinct.

Шаблон:AnchorArrernte/Aranda dialects

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Map showing languages

"Aranda" is a simplified, Australian English approximation of the traditional pronunciation of the name of Arrernte Шаблон:IPA.Шаблон:Sfn

Glottolog defines the Arandic group of languages/dialects as comprising 5 Aranda (Arrernte) dialects, plus two distinct languages, Kaytetye (Koch, 2004) and Lower Southern (or just Lower) Aranda, an extinct language.[2] Ethnologue defines 8 Arandic languages and classifies them slightly differently.[3]

Two dialects are more widely spoken than any of the others:

  • Eastern Arrernte (also known as Central Arrernte) dialects include Akarre, Antekerrepenh, Ikngerripenhe, Mparntwe Arrernte.[4] Spoken in the Alice Springs area and others, there were 1,910 speakers in the 2016 census,[5] making it the most widely spoken Arrernte, and Australian Aboriginal, language. This is the dialect most often referred to as "Arrernte" and the strongest of all in the group. There is a project encouraging its use, Apmere angkentye-kenhe,[6]
  • Alyawarra dialect is spoken by the Alyawarra people, in the Sandover and Tennant Creek areas as well as Queensland. In 2016 there were 1,550 speakers of the language, giving it a status of "Developing".[7] It is similar to Western Arrernte. (Kaytetye is related to this dialect, but is classed as a separate language.[8])

All of the other dialects are either threatened or extinct:

Argadargada[12] in the NT.[13] It is now extinct.[13]Шаблон:Efn Breen (2001) says that the language was regarded as the same or similar to Andegerebinha/Antekerrepenhe by some speakers,[8] and Glottolog regards it as a dialect of it.[9]

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Artist Albert Namatjira was a Western Arrernte man.
  • Anmatyerr (also spelt Anmatyerre and other variations),[14] divided into Eastern and Western, is spoken by the Anmatyerr (or Anmatjirra) people.[15] The Eastern form seems more closely related to Eastern Arrernte and Southern Alywarre than Western Anmatyerre, which is noticeably different phonetically from other Arandic languages.[8] it is spoken in the Mount Allan and northwest Alice Springs regions. With only 640 speakers in the 2016 census, it is regarded as threatened.[16]
  • Western Arrarnta (Western Arrernte, Western Aranda, Akara, Southern Aranda, possible sub-dialect Akerre[17]), spoken west of Alice Springs, is nearly extinct, being only spoken by 440 people in 2016.[18] Other terms are Tyuretye Arrernte and Arrernte Alturlerenj.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:EfnШаблон:Efn Breen distinguishes Tyurretye Arrernte (which he initially called Mbunghara) from Western Arrernte, saying that two speakers first recorded, from the Standley Chasm and Mbunghara, was not known until the mid-1980s, and that it may have been the "real" Western Arrernte, before the latter was mixed with Southern Arrernte (Pertame) at the Hermannsburg Mission.[8] Anna Kenny has noted that the people of the Upper Finke River prefer their language to be known as Western Aranda.[19] This dialect has similarities with Alyawarre and Kaytetye.

Sign language

The Arrernte also have a highly developed sign language,Шаблон:Sfn also known as Iltyeme-iltyeme.

Current usage and tuition

The Northern Territory Department of Education has a program for teaching Indigenous culture and languages, underpinned by a plan entitled Keeping Indigenous Languages and Cultures Strong – A Plan for Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Languages and Cultures in the Northern Territory with the second stage of the plan running from 2018 to 2020.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

The Alice Springs Language Centre delivers language teaching at primary, middle and senior schools, offering Arrernte, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese.Шаблон:Sfn

There are two courses teaching Arrernte at tertiary level: at the Batchelor Institute and at Charles Darwin University.Шаблон:Sfn

There are books available in Arandic languages in the Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages.Шаблон:Sfn

Projects are being run to revive dying dialects of the language, such as Southern Arrernte/Pertame.Шаблон:Sfn

Eastern/Central Arrernte

Phonology

This description relates to Central or Eastern Arrernte.

Consonants

Peripheral Coronal
Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Uvular Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Stop Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA
Nasal Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA
Prestopped nasal Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA
Prenasalized stop Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAШаблон:IPA
Lateral Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA
Approximant Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlink ~ Шаблон:IPAlink Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA
Tap Шаблон:IPAlinkШаблон:IPA

Шаблон:IPA is described as velar Шаблон:IPAblink by Шаблон:Harvtxt, and as uvular Шаблон:IPAblink by Шаблон:Harvtxt.

Stops are unaspirated.Шаблон:Sfnp Prenasalized stops are voiced throughout; prestopped nasals are voiceless during the stop. These sounds arose as normal consonant clusters; Ladefoged states that they now occur initially, where consonant clusters are otherwise forbidden, due to historical loss of initial vowels;[20] however, it has also been argued that such words start with a phonemic schwa, which may not be pronounced (see below).

Vowels

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The vowel phonemes of Central Arrernte, from Шаблон:Harvcoltxt. The positioning of the vowels is only approximate, as they possess a wide range of allophones. Шаблон:IPA may not be a phoneme but rather just one of the allophones of Шаблон:IPA.
Front Central Back
High (Шаблон:IPAlink) (Шаблон:IPAlink)
Mid Шаблон:IPAlink
Low Шаблон:IPAlink

All dialects have at least Шаблон:IPA.

The vowel system of Eastern/Central Arrernte is unusual in that there are only two contrastive vowel phonemes, Шаблон:IPA and Шаблон:IPA. Two-vowel systems are very rare worldwide, but are also found in some Northwest Caucasian languages. It seems that the vowel system derives from an earlier one with more phonemes, but after the development of labialised consonants in the vicinity of round vowels, the vowels lost their roundedness/backness distinction, merging into just two phonemes. There is little allophonic variation in different consonantal contexts for the vowels. Instead, the phonemes can be realised by various different articulations in free variation. For example, the phoneme Шаблон:IPA can be pronounced Шаблон:IPA in most contexts. However, it is required to be [ʊ] when phrase-initial before a labialized consonant (see below).[21]

Phonotactics

The underlying syllable structure of Eastern/Central Arrernte is argued to be VC(C), with obligatory codas and no onsets.Шаблон:Sfnp Underlying phrase-initial Шаблон:IPA is realised as zero, except before a rounded consonant where, by a rounding process of general applicability, it is realised as Шаблон:IPA. It is also common for phrases to carry a final Шаблон:IPA corresponding to no underlying segment.Шаблон:Sfnp

Among the evidence for this analysis is that some suffixes have suppletive variants for monosyllabic and bisyllabic bases. Stems that appear monosyllabic and begin with a consonant in fact select the bisyllabic variant. Stress falls on the first nucleus preceded by a consonant, which by this analysis can be stated more uniformly as the second underlying syllable. And the frequentative is formed by reduplicating the final VC syllable of the verb stem; it does not include the final Шаблон:IPA.

Orthography

Central/Eastern Arrernte orthography does not write word-initial Шаблон:IPA, and adds an e to the end of every word.

[22]
Peripheral Coronal
Laminal Apical
Bilabial Velar Uvular Palatal Dental Alveolar Retroflex
Stop p pw k kw ty tyw th thw t tw rt rtw
Nasal m mw ng ngw ny nyw nh nhw n nw rn rnw
Prestopped nasal pm pmw kng kngw tny tnyw tnh/thn tnhw/thnw tn tnw rtn rtnw
Prenasalized stop mp mpw ngk ngkw nty ntyw nth nthw nt ntw rnt rntw
Lateral ly lyw lh lhw l lw rl rlw
Approximant w h y yw r rw
Tap/Trill rr rrw
Front Central Back
High (i/ey) (u/we)
Mid e
Low a

Grammar

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Kai Kai Western Arrernte, likely a speaker of Upper Arrernte; c. 1900.

Eastern and Central Arrernte has fairly free word order but tends towards SOV. It is generally ergative, but is accusative in its pronouns. Pronouns may be marked for duality and skin group.Шаблон:Sfnp

Suffixes (Eastern/Central Arrernte)Шаблон:Sfnp
suffix gloss
+aye emphasis
+ewe stronger emphasis
+eyewe really strong emphasis
+ke for
+le actor in a sentence
+le instrument
+le location
+le-arlenge together, with
+nge from
-akerte having
-arenye from (origin), association
-arteke similarity
-atheke towards
-iperre, -ipenhe after, from
-kenhe belongs to
-ketye because (bad consequence)
-kwenye not having, without
-mpele by way of, via
-ntyele from
-werne to
+ke past
+lhe reflexive
+me present tense
+rre/+irre reciprocal
+tyale negative imperative
+tye-akenhe negative
+tyeke purpose or intent
+tyenhe future
imperative

Pronouns

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Hut of the Eastern Arrernte Basedow, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory; August 1920.

Pronouns decline with a nominative rather than ergative alignment:

Non-skin-group-marking pronouns (Eastern/Central Arrernte)Шаблон:Sfnp
person number subject object dative possessive
1 singular Шаблон:Lang/Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang/Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang/Шаблон:Lang
dual Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
plural Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
2 singular Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
dual Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
plural Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
3 singular Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
dual Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
Шаблон:Lang
Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang
plural Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang Шаблон:Lang

Body parts normally require non-possessive pronouns (inalienable possession), though younger speakers may use possessives in this case too (e.g. Шаблон:Lang or Шаблон:Lang 'my head').Шаблон:Sfnp

Examples

Eastern and Central Arrernte examples[23]
Arrernte English
Шаблон:Lang
Шаблон:Lang
G'day, What's new?
Nothing much
Шаблон:Lang
Шаблон:Lang
Are you alright?
Yes, I'm alright
Шаблон:Lang
Шаблон:Lang
See you later
OK, See you later

Cultural references

Notes

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References

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Sources

Further reading

Шаблон:Incubator

Шаблон:Languages of Australia Шаблон:Pama–Nyungan languages