Lower Arrernte language

Lower Arrernte
Lower Aranda, Lower Southern Arrernte
Alenjerntarrpe
RegionSouth-Eastern Northern Territory, northern South Australia
Extinct2011[1]
Pama–Nyungan
Language codes
ISO 639-3axl
Glottologlowe1436
AIATSIS[2]C29
ELPLower Southern Aranda

Lower Arrernte, also known as Lower Southern Arrernte, Lower Aranda, Lower Southern Aranda and Alenjerntarrpe, was an Arandic language (but not of the Arrernte language group). Lower Arrernte was spoken in the Finke River area, near the Overland Telegraph Line station at Charlotte Waters, just north of the border between South Australia and the Northern Territory, and in the Dalhousie area in S.A.[3] It had been extinct since the last speaker died in 2011, but there is now a language revival project under way.

  1. ^ Lower Arrernte at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ C29 Lower Arrernte at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  3. ^ "C29: Lower Arrernte". Austlang. Retrieved 11 June 2019.