Lesson 2: Practical Words and Sentences

Below are some words and sentences to help get you started speaking Lower Arrernte. Each section starts with a list of basic words for you to learn. Try saying them aloud. Below these, are examples of the words in sentences. Try comparing how the words look in the list to how they look in the sentences. Do some of them change? See if you can pick out as many words as possible in the sentences. All languages have words that change from the basic forms listed in a dictionary, and Lower Arrernte is the same. For now, try to say as much Lower Arrernte aloud as you can.

Greetings

There aren’t very many traditional greetings recorded for Lower Arrernte, but you might like to ask one of the following questions: