Langenesis

Pama-Nyungan family

Arrernte

c. 1500 CE – today Living

Arrernte (c. 1500 CE – today) is a living Pama-Nyungan language. Lineage: Proto-Pama-Nyungan → Arrernte.

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Speakers
4K (4,000)

Arandic dialect cluster around Alice Springs; Eastern/Central Arrernte (ISO aer) is the largest variety. Start date is nominal; intermediate subgroups are not tracked.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Pama-Nyunganc. 4,000 BCE – 3,000 BCE
  2. Arrerntec. 1500 CE – today

Sister languages 5

Also descended from Proto-Pama-Nyungan.

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