‘5 things to know about languages spoken in Mparntwe/Alice Springs’ : evidence base for the poster information

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Mparntwe/Alice Springs is the homeland of the Arrernte language

Dobson, Veronica Perrurle & Henderson, John. Eastern & Central Arrernte to English Dictionary. Institute for Aboriginal Develpmemnt Press. Alice Springs, NT. (1994/2020). 

First Languages Australia Gambay map: https://gambay.com.au/?language=Arrernte

 Many Aboriginal languages are spoken in central Australia 

 Aboriginal Interpreting Service: https://nt.gov.au/community/interpreting-and-translating- services/aboriginal-interpreter-service 

Aboriginal languages of central Australia: https://www.clc.org.au/aboriginal-languages-of-central-australia/

Browne, Emma. “Multimodal tools for exploring communicative practices among multilingual students in remote central Australia.” Babel 54, no. 1/2 (2019): 28-33. https://afmlta.asn.au/babel/

Foster, Denise, Julia Mitchell, Jane Ulrik & Raelene Williams. Population and mobility in the town camps of Alice Springs: A report prepared by Tangentyere Council Research Unit. Tangentyere Council Aboriginal Corporation. (2005). 

O’Shannessy, Carmel, Vanessa Davis, Jessie Bartlett, Alice Nelson & Denise Foster. “Developing the Little Kids’ Word List app, a fair assessment tool of communicative development for young Aboriginal children in multilingual families in Central Australia.” Studies in Language Assessment. 12, no. 2 (2023): 286. https://little-kids-learning-languages.net/
 

Aboriginal Englishes in central Australia

 Harkins, Jean. Bridging Two Worlds: Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding. University of Queensland Press. (1994)

 Wang, Yizhou, Carmel O’Shannessy, Vanessa Davis, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Joshua Roberts, and Denise Foster. “Production and perception of stop voicing in Central Australian Aboriginal English: A cross-generational study.” Australian Journal of Linguistics 44, no. 1 (2024): 69-98. doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1111/weng.70003

 Wang, Yizhou, Carmel O’Shannessy, Vanessa Davis, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, and Denise Foster. “An acoustic study on monophthongs in Central Australian Aboriginal English.” World Englishes (2025).  doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2024.2365167

 The National Indigenous Languages Report 2020: https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/indigenous-arts-and-languages/indigenous-languages-and-arts-program/national-indigenous-languages-report

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