Talk:Arrernte language

message: Oh, right,  refers here. So, I repeat:
With a vertical vowel system and all consonants split by labialization, there's bound to be some essential information not captured by the phoneme inventory alone, so explaining allophony would be nice. Also maybe a short explanation on why this analysis is preferred to a normal many-vowel no-labialization system? --Tropylium 10:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

message: I'd like to improve the lead-in with a pronunciation in IPA, preferably for both Arrernte and (Australian) English.  From what I've gathered in the article, I think the correct pronunciation is .  Does anyone know if that is correct?  And do Aussies pronounce it somewhere close to ?  That's how this American would say it, at least...  — ˈzɪzɨvə (talk) 03:12, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd gather (some of) those in the know say "ARR-un-duh" or similar while all others say "uh-RERN-tay" or "uh-RAN-duh" (as in rhyming with Miranda) depending on the spelling they encounter. BTW I think you mean . The  is hardly expected unless you're trying to pronounce it Hindi-style. Benwing (talk) 07:13, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name pronunciation 

message: Why is this called "Upper Aranda language"? I get that Aranda is a vague attempt at rendering the pronunciation of the word Arrernte (although hardly anyone is going to realize they need to stress the first syllable rather than the second). But the newer sources all say "Arrernte", hence using "Aranda" is contrary to WP naming principles. Ladefoged and Maddieson discuss "Eastern Arrernte" (not "Eastern Aranda") quite a bit. The only sources that don't say Arrernte are old (1907 and 1944, prior to stabilization of the current orthography).
, can you please move this back? Thx. Benwing (talk) 07:09, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title should be "Arrernte language"? 

message: Hey  ... first, thanks for renaming the page in response to my request last Dec.
I'm cc'ing you because you've done a lot of work on this page. The presented phonology of this language looks suspect to me; in general I'm skeptical of analyses that claim a whole lot of phonemes like prestopped nasals and prenasalized stops, when clusters could do just as well, and esp. when other Pama-Nyungan languages don't appear to have such phonemes. Similarly for the whole set of rounded phonemes combined with no /i/ or /u/. In general there's an unfortunate tendency among some descriptive linguists to postulate unusual phonemes to make the language they're working on seem more interesting and exotic.
In fact the JIPA illustration of Central Arrernte has no rounded phonemes and no prenasalized stops and a more normal four-vowel system (/a ǝ i u/), although it does have prestopped nasals (which I'm still skeptical about). Central Arrernte apparently has clusters of various sorts even beyond homorganic nasal-stop combinations (e.g. clusters with laterals and non-homorganic nasals). The presented phonology is for Eastern Arrernte but I can't believe there's that much difference between the two.
I know you didn't create the phonology section but it's something you might want to look at if you have time.
Benwing (talk) 23:58, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Could very well be.  Or it could just be that the phonologist has a different theoretical background.  I doubt I'll get to this any time soon (like this year), but if you can find a source that comments on these kinds of sequences in CA, we could probably make a comment here, even though technically speaking it would be OR.  — kwami (talk) 04:49, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubtful about claims made about the phonology 

message: Is there any particular reason the consonant table is, frankly speaking, a mess? It's not ordered from frontness to backness, for some reason, but from furthest to closest, as measured from the alveolar ridge, unlike the vast majority of phonological tables on Wikipedia pages. It is a poor way to present the data and the only reason I am not editing it outright is that it is, to my naïve eyes, so bad that I assume whoever did it had some sort of reason for choosing this organization instead of the regular one. Vampyricon (talk) 04:30, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consonant table organization