Pertame,also known asSouthern ArrernteorSouthern Aranda,is anArandic language(but not of theArrernte languagegroup) from the country south ofAlice Springs,along theFinke River,north and north-west of the location inhabited by speakers ofLower Arrernte.[3]Ethnologueclasses Pertame as a variant name for Lower Southern, but other sources vary in their classifications and descriptions of this language.
| Pertame | |
|---|---|
| Southern Arrernte, Southern Aranda | |
| Pertame | |
| Region | South-EasternNorthern Territory,along theFinke River |
| Extinct | 2018[1] |
Pama–Nyungan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | pert1234 |
| AIATSIS[2] | C46 |
Language 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 theDepartment 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 artistErlikilyika(Jim Kite) was a Pertame speaker.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ab"To save a dying language".Alice Springs News Online. 23 May 2019.Retrieved9 June2019.
- ^C46Pertame at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database,Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^"Lower Arrernte".Mobile Language Team.Archivedfrom the original on 30 September 2018.Retrieved15 June2019.
- ^"Pertame Project".Call for Australian languages and linguistics.Retrieved9 June2019.
- ^"Priority Languages Support Project".First Languages Australia.Retrieved13 January2020.
- ^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.ISSN0029-8077.
- ^Mulvaney, D. J.,"Erlikilyika (1865–1930)",Australian Dictionary of Biography,Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,retrieved14 September2024
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