Language name and locationː Eastern Arrernte, Alice, Australia [Refer to Ethnologue]

语言名称和分布地区: 东部阿兰达语, 澳大利亚北部艾丽丝镇附近

1. anyente [ʌˈɲəntʰə]            

2. atherre [ʌ'tθəɾə]

3. urrpetye [uɾpitʃə] ( litː 'three or more' )

Linguist providing data and dateː Mr. Neil Broad, Australian Society for Indigenous Languages, Alice Spring, NT, Australia, October 11, 2008.
提供资料的语言学家: Mr. Neil Broad, 2008 年 10 月 11 日

Other comments: Eastern Arrernte has only two words for numbers 1 to 2. After two, they have urrpetye [uɾpitʃə] (litː 'three or more'). All other numbers are borrowed from English and pronounced as in English.

Eastern Arrernte Phonetic chartː Neil Broad, April 29, 2009

Consonantsː

/ɰ~ʁ/ is described as velar ([ɰ]) by Breen (2005), and as uvular ([ʁ̞]) by Henderson (2003).

Stops are unaspirated. ^[1]

Vowels

All dialects have at least /ə a/.

The vowel system of Arrernte is unusual in that there are only two contrastive vowel phonemes,  /a/ and /ə/. 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 labialized consonants in the vicinity of round vowels, the vowels lost their roundedness/backness distinction, merging into just two phonemes. There is no allophonic variation in different consonantal contexts for the vowels. Instead, the phonemes can be realized by various different articulations in free variation. For example, the phoneme /ə/ can be pronounced as [ɪ ~ e ~ ə ~ ʊ] in any context. The syllable structure of Arrernte is argued to be VC(C), with obligatory codas and no onsets    Plural morphemes are suppletive for monosyllabic and bisyllabic words in the structure of VC and VC(C)VC respectively. Stress falls on the first nucleus preceded by a consonant, and the frequentative is formed by reduplicating the final VC portion of the verb stem.

Orthography