Data collected by AUSTLANG

Data on the language

Alternatives names: Andegerebenha, Andegerebinha, Andakerebina, Antekerrepinhe, Andegerebenha, Antakiripina (of Iliaura), Undekerebina, Walwallie, Willi-willi.

For other names or spellings are used for this language. See Austlang website.

Classification: Pama-Nyungan family, Arandic group, Aranda subgroup

Area:

Antekerrepenh is an Aboriginal language spoken in the Australian Northern Territory (NT) and Queensland. More precisely: Tarlton Range east to Toko Range; headwaters of Field River; down the Hay River but southwestern range uncertain, probably to about Lake Caroline but limits depend at different times on flow of stream in flood (Tindale 1974).

Number of speakers:

The National Indigenous Languages Survey (Nils) reported only 5 speakers of Antekerrepenh in 2005.

Sources and bibliography

Breen, Gavan. 1982. Antekerrepenh grammar, ms.

Maps

Breen, Gavan. 1970. A description of the Waluwara language, Monash University: MA.

Bowern, Claire. 2001. Karnic classification revisited. In Forty years on, eds. J Simpson et al, 245-26. Canberra Pacific Linguistics.

Tindale, Norman. 1974. Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia. Canberra: Division of National Mapping, Department of National Development.

Links

Austlang page on Antekerrepenh: http://austlang.aiatsis.gov.au/main.php

Ethnologue.com page on Antekerrepenh: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=adg