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.[3]Ethnologue classes Pertame as a variant name for Lower Southern, but other sources vary in their classifications and descriptions of this language.
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.[4]
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".[5]
Speakers
Renowned artist Erlikilyika (Jim Kite) was a Pertame speaker.
References
^ ab"To save a dying language". Alice Springs News Online. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
pertame, language, confused, with, lower, southern, arrernte, lower, arrernte, pertame, also, known, southern, arrernte, southern, aranda, arandic, language, arrernte, language, group, from, country, south, alice, springs, along, finke, river, north, north, we. Not to be confused with Lower Southern Arrernte Lower Arrernte 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 3 Ethnologue classes Pertame as a variant name for Lower Southern but other sources vary in their classifications and descriptions of this language PertameSouthern Arrernte Southern ArandaPertameRegionSouth Eastern Northern Territory along the Finke RiverExtinct2018 1 Language familyPama Nyungan ArandicPertameLanguage codesISO 639 3 Glottologpert1234AIATSIS 2 C46Language revival EditWith 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 4 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 5 Speakers EditRenowned artist Erlikilyika Jim Kite was a Pertame speaker References Edit a b To save a dying language Alice Springs News Online 23 May 2019 Retrieved 9 June 2019 C46 Pertame at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 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 This Australian Aboriginal languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pertame language amp oldid 1158067628, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
