Anmatyerr language

E927649

The Anmatyerr language is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Anmatyerr people of the Northern Territory, belonging to the Arandic language family.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Anmatyerr language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (38)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arandic language
Australian Aboriginal language
natural language
belongsTo Indigenous languages of the Northern Territory
continent Oceania
country Australia
ethnicity Anmatyerr people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Anmatjera
linked to: Anmatyerr

Anmatyerre
linked to: Anmatyerr

Anmatyirra
linked to: Anmatyerr
hasDialects Eastern Anmatyerr
Western Anmatyerr
hasDomain home and community use
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
suffixing language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasPreservationEfforts community language programs
language documentation projects
hasSpeakerCommunity Anmatyerr communities north of Alice Springs
hasWordOrder flexible word order
isEndangered true
ISO639-3 amx
isPartOf Arandic subgroup
isRelatedTo Alyawarr language
Arrernte language
linked to: Arrernte languages
isTaughtIn some community schools in the Northern Territory
languageFamily Arandic
languageGroup Pama–Nyungan languages
region Central Australia
spokenBy Anmatyerr people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Australia
Northern Territory
status minority language
usedFor ceremonial contexts
oral storytelling
traditional cultural practices
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arrernte languages hasPart Anmatyerr language
Anmatyerr people language Anmatyerr language
Alyawarr language closelyRelatedTo Anmatyerr language
Alyawarr language hasNeighboringLanguage Anmatyerr language