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Pertame
Pertame
Southern Arrernte, Southern Aranda
Pertame
Native to	Australia
Region	South-Eastern Northern Territory, along the Finke River
Native speakers	<20 (2018); 11-50 (2018-19)
Revival
Language family	Pama–Nyungan Arandic Pertame; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	pert1234
AIATSIS	C46

Pertame, also known as Southern Arrernte or Southern Aranda, is an Arandic language (but not of the Arrernte language group) from the country south of Alice Springs, along the Finke River, north and north-west of the location inhabited by speakers of Lower Arrernte.^[4] Ethnologue classes Pertame as a variant name for Lower Southern, but other sources vary in their classifications and descriptions of this language.

Language revival

With only 20 fluent speakers left by 2018,^[1] the Pertame Project is seeking to retain and revive the language, headed by Pertame elder Christobel Swan.^[5]

As of 2020^[update], Pertame is one of 20 languages prioritised as part of the Priority Languages Support Project, being undertaken by First Languages Australia and funded by the Department of Communications and the Arts. The project aims to "identify and document critically-endangered languages — those languages for which little or no documentation exists, where no recordings have previously been made, but where there are living speakers".^[6]

Speakers

Renowned artist Erlikilyika (Jim Kite) was a Pertame speaker.^[7]^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "To save a dying language". Alice Springs News Online. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
^ ^a ^b C46 Pertame at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
^ "Pertame School". Pertame School. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
^ "Lower Arrernte". Mobile Language Team. Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "Pertame Project". Call for Australian languages and linguistics. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
^ "Priority Languages Support Project". First Languages Australia. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
^ Gibson, Jason (July 2015). "Central Australian Songs: A History and Reinterpretation of their Distribution through the Earliest Recordings". Oceania. 85 (2): 165–182. doi:10.1002/ocea.5084. ISSN 0029-8077.
^ Mulvaney, D. J., "Erlikilyika (1865–1930)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 14 September 2024