The Andegerebinha language, also known as Andegerebenha, Andigibinha, Antekerrepenhe and Antekerrepinhe, is an
Australian Aboriginal
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language
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of the
Northern Territory
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, specifically of the
Upper Arrernte language
Arrernte or Aranda (; ) 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 A ...
group. It was spoken around the
Hay River Hay River may refer to:
Places
* Hay River, Northwest Territories
* Hay River, Wisconsin
Rivers
* Hay River (Wisconsin)
* Hay River (Canada), a river in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada
* Hay River, Northern Territory, Australia
* Hay R ...
(east of Alice Springs) and Pituri Creek area. It was spoken by only ten individuals in 1981, five in 2005, and in the 2016 census there were no fluent speakers of the language, so is now classified as
dormant.
A study of its sound system was published in 1977 by
Gavan Breen
Gavan Breen (born 22 January 1935), OAM, also known as J.G. Breen, is an Australian linguist, specialising in the description of Australian Aboriginal languages. He has studied and recorded 49 such languages.
Life Early life
Breen was born at ...
,
which he revisited in 2001, saying that the phonology is now regarded as similar to Central Arrernte.
*Ayerrerenge (or Ayerrereng or Araynepenh,
[ and also known as Yuruwinga, Bularnu and other variations) was spoken by the Yuruwinga/Yaroinga people,][ It was spoken across the ]Queensland
)
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, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
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border in the Headingly, Urandangi
Urandangi (formerly also spelled Urandangie) is an outback town in the locality of Piturie in the Shire of Boulia, Queensland, Australia.
Geography
The town is located on the banks of the Georgina River in Central West Queensland, north west ...
, Lake Nash
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, Barkly Downs and Mount Isa
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areas, and near Mount Hogarth, Bathurst, and Argadargada in the NT.[ According to '']Glottolog
''Glottolog'' is a bibliographic database of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute for ...
'', quoting Breen (1977 and 2001): "E17/E18/E19 has a separate entry for Ayerrerenge xe But Ayerrerenge is an Arandic variety subsumed under the entry Andegerebinha dg.[NOTE: Breen 2001 is cite]
here, p.169
/ref> Breen notes that three of the speakers of Ayerrereng recorded in 1960 called their language Antekerrepenhe,[ and Glottolog regards it as a dialect of it.][
]
References
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Arandic languages
Endangered indigenous Australian languages in the Northern Territory