Andegerebinha dialect explained

Andegerebinha
Region:	Australia Northern Territory, Hay River, Pituri Creek area, east of Alyawarra.
Extinct:	By 2016
Ref:	^[1] ^[2]
Familycolor:	Australian
Fam1:	Pama–Nyungan
Fam2:	Arandic
Fam3:	Aranda
Fam4:	Upper Arrernte
Iso3:	adg
Glotto:	ande1247
Glottorefname:	Andegerebinha
Aiatsis:	C12

The Andegerebinha language, also known as Andegerebenha, Andigibinha, Antekerrepenhe and Antekerrepinhe, is an Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory, specifically of the Upper Arrernte language group. It was spoken around the Hay River (east of Alice Springs) and Pituri Creek^[3] 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,^[4] which he revisited in 2001, saying that the phonology is now regarded as similar to Central Arrernte.^[5]

• Ayerrerenge (or Ayerrereng or Araynepenh,^[5] and also known as Yuruwinga, Bularnu and other variations) was spoken by the Yuruwinga/Yaroinga people,^[6] is the north-easternmost member of the Arrernte group of languages, and the least studied.^[5] It was spoken across the Queensland border in the Headingly, Urandangi, Lake Nash, Barkly Downs and Mount Isa areas, and near Mount Hogarth, Bathurst,^[7] and Argadargada^[8] in the NT. It is now extinct. According to Glottolog, quoting Breen (1977 and 2001): "E17/E18/E19 has a separate entry for Ayerrerenge [axe]. But Ayerrerenge is an Arandic variety subsumed under the entry Andegerebinha [adg]".^{[9] [10]} Breen notes that three of the speakers of Ayerrereng recorded in 1960 called their language Antekerrepenhe,^[5] and Glottolog regards it as a dialect of it.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Census 2016, Language spoken at home by Sex (SA2+). ABS. stat.data.abs.gov.au. en-au. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2017-10-29. 26 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181226044803/http://stat.data.abs.gov.au/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ABS_C16_T09_SA. dead.
2. Web site: Cultural diversity: Census. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 13 October 2022. 2021.
3. Web site: Pituri Creek. Bonzle. Map and info. 12 June 2019.
4. Breen. Gavan. Andegerebenha vowel phonology. Phonetica. 34. 5. 371–391. 1977. 10.1159/000259909. 594171.
5. Book: Breen, Gavan. Chapter 4: The wonders of Arandic phonology. 2001. Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages. Simpson. Jane. David. Nash. Mary. Laughren. Peter. Austin. Barry . Alpher. ANU. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. (Pacific Linguistics). pdf. Pacific Linguistics 512. 085883524X. 45–69. 11 June 2019.
6. Web site: G12: Ayerrerenge. Austlang. 11 June 2019.
7. NOTE: Cannot find reference to a Bathurst in this region, but this map of Mt Hogarth shows a "Bathurst Bore".
8. Web site: Argadargada Waterhole (with map). Bonzle. 12 June 2019. Now on the northern boundary of Manners Creek Station.
9. Web site: Andegerebinha. Glottolog. 10 June 2019.
10. NOTE: Breen 2001 is cited here, p.169