Arunta (see the Arrernte language or Aranda)

The Arunta language—more commonly known today as Arrernte language or Aranda—is spoken in Australia, primarily across the central region of the Northern Territory and extending into parts of South Australia.
Traditionally spoken by the Arrernte people, whose traditional lands cover roughly 120,000 square kilometers centered around Alice Springs (Mparntwe) in Central Australia. It reaches down toward the Finke River and northern South Australia regions.Dialect Cluster: Arrernte functions as a dialect cluster rather than a single uniform tongue, with mutually intelligible varieties including Central, Eastern, Western, and Southern dialects.Vitality: Eastern and Central Arrernte remain among the most widely spoken and actively transmitted Indigenous Australian languages today, with thousands of speakers recorded in recent census data, though many related Arandic varieties are vulnerable or endangered.