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English language (monolingual) [PRO] Anthropology / Australian Aboriginals | |||||
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4 | a typo for (Arrernte) . |
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4 | Arrernte |
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western arrerent a typo for (Arrernte) . Explanation: Seemingly it alludes to the native people from West of Alice Springs whereArrente lands is located. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Arrernte |
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western arrerent Arrernte Explanation: It looks like you have a typo. You'll get plenty of results with Arrernte. ARRERNTE CULTURE At contact there was no single, homogeneous Aboriginal society. Groups differed in aspects of their cultural and social organisation, and in the Northern Territory alone, over 100 different languages were spoken. These were separate languages, as unlike one another as French and Russian. Existence of widespread social networks meant that people had to be multilingual to communicate. The Arrernte group could speak up to 10 languages / dialects. http://aboriginalart.com.au/culture/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2006-04-25 04:31:36 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- And another variation: Arrarnta (Western) http://www.language-museum.com/a/arrarnta-western.php Western Arrarnta http://cn.geocities.com/euslchan/aus.htm In fact, if the Arrarntic language speaking groups are anything to go by, it is doubtful that the clans even had a generic word for people'. In the Western Arrarnta dialect, the Arrarnta word relha is used now as a word for people collectively, i.e., men, women, children, youths, etcetera. But this usage of the word seems to have resulted from contact with Whites. I was alerted to this possibility when doing some translation work in another Arrarntic dialect. http://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/html/volume9/v9chap8... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 30 mins (2006-04-25 04:35:46 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- And Aranda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aranda http://www.ausanthrop.net/resources/ausanthrop_db/detail.php... |
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