27-583: [REDACTED] Look up todd in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Todd or Todds may refer to: Places [ edit ] Australia Todd River , an ephemeral river United States Todd Valley, California , also known as Todd, an unincorporated community Todd, Missouri , a ghost town Todd, North Carolina , an unincorporated community Todd County, Kentucky Todd County, Minnesota Todd County, South Dakota Todd Fork ,
54-542: A bank-to-bank flow within 15 minutes, and it is possible to follow the leading edge of the flow as it snakes through town at a walking pace. The riverbed contains sites and trees sacred to the local Arrente people including strong associations with Yeperenye (Caterpillar) Dreaming and with certain old red-river gums in the river representing Kwekatja; pre-initiated boys following the river north. The Henley-on-Todd Regatta has been held in Alice Springs annually since 1961.
81-423: A consonant in fact select the bisyllabic variant. Stress falls on the first nucleus preceded by a consonant, which by this analysis can be stated more uniformly as the second underlying syllable. And the frequentative is formed by reduplicating the final VC syllable of the verb stem; it does not include the final [ə] . Central/Eastern Arrernte orthography does not write word-initial /ə/ , and adds an e to
108-465: A local man in 1997 who drowned whilst riding the river on a lilo . Local paddlers have recently taken to kayaking this section of grade 2 to 3 rapids. 23°45′00″S 133°52′38″E / 23.75°S 133.8772°E / -23.75; 133.8772 Arrernte language Arrernte or Aranda ( / ˈ ʌr ə n d ə / ; Eastern Arrernte pronunciation: [aɾəⁿɖə] ), or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte ( Upper Aranda ),
135-623: A recurring character in the series Stargate Atlantis The Todd ( Scrubs ) , a character on Scrubs Todd, a character in So Help Me Todd Other uses [ edit ] Todd (elm cultivar) Todd class , a characteristic class in algebraic topology Todd-AO , a company in film post-production Todd Corporation , a New Zealand conglomerate See also [ edit ] TOD (disambiguation) Justice Todd (disambiguation) Toddy (disambiguation) All pages with titles containing Todd Topics referred to by
162-541: A river in Ohio Todd Township, Minnesota Todd Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania Todd Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania Todds, Ohio , an unincorporated community People [ edit ] Todd (given name) Todd (surname) Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Todd (album) , a 1974 album by Todd Rundgren Todd ( Cars ) , a character in Cars Todd ( Stargate ) ,
189-510: A whole. These names were recorded by TGH Strehlow in "Songs of Central Australia". The Todd is in a very arid part of Australia and has zero to very low flow during 95% of the year. When it does flow, it carries a heavy sediment load picked up from the grazing land around the Bond Springs homestead which lends its waters a milky chocolate colour and renders them completely opaque. The Todd River's English name, and that of its tributary,
216-649: Is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory , Australia, by the Arrernte people . Other spelling variations are Arunta or Arrarnta , and all of the dialects have multiple other names. There are about 1,800 speakers of Eastern / Central Arrernte , making this dialect one of the widest spoken of any Indigenous language in Australia, the one usually referred to as Arrernte and
243-499: Is argued to be VC(C), with obligatory codas and no onsets . Underlying phrase-initial /ə/ is realised as zero, except before a rounded consonant where, by a rounding process of general applicability, it is realised as [ʊ] . It is also common for phrases to carry a final [ə] corresponding to no underlying segment. Among the evidence for this analysis is that some suffixes have suppletive variants for monosyllabic and bisyllabic bases. Stems that appear monosyllabic and begin with
270-637: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Todd River The Todd River ( Arrernte : Lhere Mparntwe / Lhere Imatukua ) is an ephemeral river in the southern Northern Territory , central Australia . The origins of the Todd River are in the MacDonnell Ranges , where it flows past the Telegraph Station , almost through the centre of Alice Springs (Mparntwe), through Heavitree Gap at
297-423: Is little allophonic variation in different consonantal contexts for the vowels. Instead, the phonemes can be realised by various different articulations in free variation . For example, the phoneme /ə/ can be pronounced [ɪ ~ e ~ ə ~ ʊ] in most contexts. However, it is required to be [ʊ] when phrase-initial before a labialized consonant (see below). The underlying syllable structure of Eastern/Central Arrernte
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#1732845405643324-442: Is unusual in that there are only two contrastive vowel phonemes, /a/ and /ə/ . Two-vowel systems are very rare worldwide, but are also found in some Northwest Caucasian languages . It seems that the vowel system derives from an earlier one with more phonemes, but after the development of labialised consonants in the vicinity of round vowels, the vowels lost their roundedness/backness distinction, merging into just two phonemes. There
351-480: Is used when Anmatyerr people when hunting, when talking to the deaf, when somebody passes away and when talking to elders. The Northern Territory Department of Education has a program for teaching Indigenous culture and languages, underpinned by a plan entitled Keeping Indigenous Languages and Cultures Strong – A Plan for Teaching and Learning of Indigenous Languages and Cultures in the Northern Territory with
378-508: The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages . Projects are being run to revive dying dialects of the language, such as Southern Arrernte/Pertame. This description relates to Central or Eastern Arrernte. /ɰ ~ ʁ̞/ is described as velar [ ɰ ] by Breen & Dobson (2005) , and as uvular [ ʁ̞ ] by Henderson (2003) . Stops are unaspirated. Prenasalized stops are voiced throughout; prestopped nasals are voiceless during
405-511: The Alice Springs municipal area is situated on a flood plain of the Todd River, created by flooding upstream of the east-west barrier created by the Heavitree Range, a local segment of the MacDonnell Ranges . The Todd runs south through this range at Heavitree Gap along with the main road and rail links connecting Alice Springs to Adelaide . Heavy flows of the Todd can cut road and rail access, and
432-534: The Charles River, were given by surveyor W. W. Mills , after Charles Todd , then South Australian Superintendent of Telegraphs and Postmaster General of South Australia , who was largely responsible for the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line . The Todd River is integral to the city of Alice Springs, which has its central business district built on the edge of the river. A large portion of
459-486: The bottle neck effect of the Gap can cause flooding in many parts of the town. There have been numerous cases of people drowning as often people camp in the riverbed and the flooding can occur very rapidly and unexpectedly from heavy rains upstream. Heavy rainfalls in the catchment to the north of Alice Springs cause the river to start flowing through the town around 6 to 8 hours later. The river can change from its normal dry bed to
486-535: The dry riverbed, including the closing ceremony for the 2006 Alice Festival. Camping in the riverbed is illegal, although this law is rarely enforced. A flow of water in the river is quite an event for the people of Alice Springs, who flock to the causeways and the Telegraph Station to play in the fleeting waters. Although the riverbed is wide and of gentle gradient through the town the opaque waters combined with trees, waterborne and man-made hazards make playing in
513-406: The flowing river dangerous. Upstream from Alice Springs the Todd River descends quite rapidly, dropping 100 metres from Junction Waterhole to the Telegraph Station over 8 km of river length (5 km direct). This is a hilly area, and the river bed is strewn with rocks creating some lively rapids during the short-lived flood events. Many locals are wary of these waters, remembering the death of
540-476: The one described in detail below. It is spoken in the Alice Springs area and taught in schools and universities, heard in media and used in local government. The second biggest dialect in the group is Alyawarre. Some of the other dialects are spoken by very few people, leading to efforts to revive their usage ; others are now completely extinct . "Aranda" is a simplified, Australian English approximation of
567-414: The others: All of the other dialects are either threatened or extinct: The Arrernte also have a highly developed Arrernte sign language , also known as Iltyeme-iltyeme. There is also an Anmatyerr sign language called iltyem-iltyem which is used by many Anmatyerr speakers to communicate non-verbally; the word iltja means 'hand, finger' and the term translates as 'signaling with hands'. Sign language
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#1732845405643594-403: The regatta is held on the dry riverbed , and draws up to 20,000 spectators. Bottomless boats are picked up by the competitors standing within them and running down the course. The regatta carries insurance against the risk of water in the riverbed. The Henley-on-Todd Regatta has been cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding - the river had too much water for the race. Other events are held in
621-444: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Todd . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Todd&oldid=1178846332 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
648-573: The second stage of the plan running from 2018 to 2020. The Alice Springs Language Centre delivers language teaching at primary, middle and senior schools, offering Arrernte, Indonesian , Japanese , Spanish and Chinese . There are two courses teaching Arrernte at tertiary level: at the Batchelor Institute and at Charles Darwin University . There are books available in Arandic languages in
675-661: The southern end of Alice Springs and continuing on for some distance, passing through the western part of the Simpson Desert , as it becomes a tributary of the Hale River , and eventually flowing into Lake Eyre in South Australia. The indigenous Arrernte people know this river as Lhere Mparntwe ( Eastern Arrernte pronunciation: [l̪ərə ᵐbaⁿɖʷə] ) where it runs through Alice Springs and Lhere Imatukua ( Eastern Arrernte pronunciation: [l̪ərə imatukua] ) as
702-403: The stop. These sounds arose as normal consonant clusters; Ladefoged states that they now occur initially, where consonant clusters are otherwise forbidden, due to historical loss of initial vowels; however, it has also been argued that such words start with a phonemic schwa, which may not be pronounced (see below). All dialects have at least /ə a/ . The vowel system of Eastern/Central Arrernte
729-446: The traditional pronunciation of the name of Arrernte [ˈarəɳ͡ɖa] . Glottolog defines the Arandic group of languages/dialects as comprising 5 Aranda (Arrernte) dialects, plus two distinct languages, Kaytetye (Koch, 2004) and Lower Southern (or just Lower) Aranda, an extinct language. Ethnologue defines 8 Arandic languages and classifies them slightly differently. Two dialects are more widely spoken than any of
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